Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer AI Insight Forum

Full list for Schumer’s AI insight forum: pic.twitter.com/b9mJhW39NW

— Maria Cristina Curi (@m_ccuri) August 30, 2023

Chuck Schumer has discussed AI multiple times, especially in the past week in his remarks here and here. Now he’s meeting with the below list of AI CEOs for a six-hour closed-door meeting in which every big tech company involved in companies like Palantir, OpenAI, Google, and Meta talk to him about how they feel they should be regulated moving forward.

Some pro-generative AI artists signed a letter to be included. Feel free to sign the Luddite Letter to ask for a seat of our own. After the meeting this week, it will be converted into a letter condemning the entire event.

Here is the list as posted by Maria Cristina Curi of Axios to Twitter on August 30, 2023, along with the names typed out and links to the affiliated companies of each.

• Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI
• Rumman Chowdhury, AI ethics expert and cofounder of the nonprofit Humane Intelligence
• Jack Clark, cofounder of Anthropic
• Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face
• Eric Fanning, president and CEO of Aerospace Industries Association and 22nd Secretary of the Army
• Bill Gates, cofounder and former CEO of Microsoft, current chair of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• Tristan Harris, cofounder of the Center for Human Technology
• Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia
• Alex Karp, cofounder and CEO of Palantir
• Arvind Krishna, CEO of IBM
• Janet Murguía, president of Unidos US
• Elon Musk, CEO of X/Tesla
• Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft
• Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google
• Deborah Raji, AI researcher at University of California, Berkeley
• Charles Rivkin, chairman and CEO, Motion Picture Association
• Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google
• Elizabeth Shuler, president, AFL-CIO
• Meredith Stiehm, president of the Writer’s Guild
• Randi Weingarten, president, American Federation of Teachers
• Maya Wiley, president and CEO, Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
• Mark Zuckerberg, CEO, Meta

The event will begin with a three-hour morning panel featuring remarks from tech CEOs and other experts. After a one-hour break, a three-hour afternoon session will take place. Senators are encouraged to attend but won’t be able to provide remarks or ask questions. The forum aims to be a dialogue between experts rather than a traditional committee hearing.

An afternoon session will focus on key questions in AI and topics for future forums. Some speakers may not stay for the second session, but Schumer requests high-ranking deputies to be present. The event is not expected to delve into the granular details of AI regulation; that work will happen later at the committee level.

The closed-door format of the upcoming AI Insight Forum led by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer  raised concerns about transparency in AI regulation. This comes amid existing headlines about ‘black-box’ AI models and reports of AI ‘industrial capture’ from companies like OpenAI and Anthropic.

Critics say that while a closed-door setting allows for more direct discussions, it lacks accountability. The Center for AI and Digital Policy also expressed concerns in a letter to Schumer, stating that the congressional process should be open and that public hearings should be held, especially given the importance of AI as a policy issue.