house Bill H.R. 6090
Should Congress Get Updates About Advancements in Artificial Intelligence?
Argument in favor
Artificial intelligence technologies have the potential to be a disruptive economic influence ― for better and worse ― so it makes sense for Congress to get periodic updates about AI advancements.
07/02/2018
This might seem like something out of science fiction, right alongside 45’s “Space Force.” But the fact of the matter is that scientists are doing amazing things with Artificial Intelligence every day, and this will give rise to some serious ethical questions in the future. People, Congress included, should be as well informed as possible about new developments in A.I.
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07/02/2018
During the Facebook congressional hearing, it was woefully apparent that Congress had no idea what it was talking about. This stuff is important and we should monitor these things as a country, as we have no way idea what impact it will have on our and our children's future. I do not think that by having periodic reports on AI will increase our congressmen and women's understanding of it significantly. However, it is a step in the right direction and later on we will be able to hold our representatives accountable when we find out they did not read or pay attention to these reports later down the line.
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07/02/2018
Absolutely. The pace of AI advancements will only speed up from here, and in order to keep up with developments, congress should be informed. AI policy and regulation will be quintessential to the safety of AI in the coming years.
Argument opposed
It’s unlikely that periodic reports on advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) will improve lawmakers’ understanding of the technology or any resulting legislation.
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07/02/2018
Science needs to be able to explore AI without the government constantly in the way. This is just a stepping stone to trying to control the scientists. Besides, these are the same people who didn’t understand how Facebook works, or that we have moved past the dial up era. Do you really think they understand AI?
07/02/2018
The GOP has been using artificial intelligence to gerrymander true representation out from under Americans for years. Duh.
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07/03/2018
We already have Artificial Intelligence in the White House, we like to have some real intelligence. The difference between a smart person and a dumb person, a smart person knows they are dumb and a dumb person think they are smart and are willing to tell you how smart they are! Open mouth remove all doubt. You have to have people that are in this century to understand AI.
This might seem like something out of science fiction, right alongside 45’s “Space Force.” But the fact of the matter is that scientists are doing amazing things with Artificial Intelligence every day, and this will give rise to some serious ethical questions in the future. People, Congress included, should be as well informed as possible about new developments in A.I.
Science needs to be able to explore AI without the government constantly in the way. This is just a stepping stone to trying to control the scientists. Besides, these are the same people who didn’t understand how Facebook works, or that we have moved past the dial up era. Do you really think they understand AI?
During the Facebook congressional hearing, it was woefully apparent that Congress had no idea what it was talking about. This stuff is important and we should monitor these things as a country, as we have no way idea what impact it will have on our and our children's future. I do not think that by having periodic reports on AI will increase our congressmen and women's understanding of it significantly. However, it is a step in the right direction and later on we will be able to hold our representatives accountable when we find out they did not read or pay attention to these reports later down the line.
The GOP has been using artificial intelligence to gerrymander true representation out from under Americans for years. Duh.
Absolutely. The pace of AI advancements will only speed up from here, and in order to keep up with developments, congress should be informed. AI policy and regulation will be quintessential to the safety of AI in the coming years.
We already have Artificial Intelligence in the White House, we like to have some real intelligence. The difference between a smart person and a dumb person, a smart person knows they are dumb and a dumb person think they are smart and are willing to tell you how smart they are! Open mouth remove all doubt. You have to have people that are in this century to understand AI.
Until the House and the Senate can display a functional understanding of basic things like the Internet and Facebook, this is a pointless undertaking. Can you imagine trying to explain the difference between a generative adversarial network and a recurrent neural network to someone like Senator Hatch? Better that they focus on more important issues like poverty.
Perhaps we should enlist AI in the Congress. First thing first, get them reports on the whereabouts of their spines.
They don’t believe in anything scientific and their combined intelligence is in the “just smart enough to be despicable “ range so, no!
AI is potentially the most world changing technology around. I have little if any faith in the ability of Congress to actually understand or keep up with developments but it should be carefully watched.
You mean from other countries that are making advances rather than becoming dominant in coal and steel? Absolutely!
No. The fed Gov should stay out of science! We have organizations, committees, and review boards that ensure science is safe
No Cause Republicans,won't fund science and don't believe in science and most are morons and the GOP would probably make it illegal like they do everything else. So I vote No! Mainly cause Republicans are Morons! And so are some democrats like Joe manchin dumber then a bag of door nails.
I think Congress should be aware of a lot of things they apparently aren't. Writing laws about individual subjects to get them to do the job of knowing appropriate background information on what they are legislating seems silly but if that is what it takes then I suppose it is a good idea.
The only way to keep laws in sync with technology is for the lawmakers to know what's going on. Too many times laws are trying to play catch up after negative incidents have happened. It would be great to have some forward thinkers and long term planning.
What are they going to do with this information. Don’t you have to be able to critically think or have some sort of intellectual thought to disseminate the information AI engineers would provide? Before we concern ourselves with our leaders knowing about artificial intelligence, let’s get them to agree on intelligent facts first, like global warming.