{"id":19244,"date":"2023-06-13T15:27:59","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T19:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&p=19244"},"modified":"2023-06-13T15:32:37","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T19:32:37","slug":"watch-sen-ossoff-convenes-hearing-on-implications-of-artificial-intelligence-for-human-rights","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/watch-sen-ossoff-convenes-hearing-on-implications-of-artificial-intelligence-for-human-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Sen. Ossoff Convenes Hearing on Implications of Artificial Intelligence for Human Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington, D.C. <\/strong>\u2014 U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff, Chairman of the Senate Human Rights Subcommittee, today convened a bipartisan hearing to explore the implications of artificial intelligence for human rights.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his opening remarks, Chairman Ossoff highlighted both the risks and potential of AI technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThroughout history, transformative technologies have emerged, with the potential to disrupt societies, economies, and politics profoundly and sometimes very quickly. AI capabilities are growing rapidly and in ways even its creators cannot predict, and already, it\u2019s changing our lives,\u201d Chairman Ossoff said. <\/strong>\u201cAmerican families are now threatened by AI-enabled scams, made far more sophisticated through this technology than traditional spam email or sham telemarking calls.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur study of these technologies and associated risks should not blind us, of course, to this technology\u2019s extraordinary potential,\u201d Chairman Ossoff continued.<\/strong> \u201cFor example, cancer diagnoses, the development of new, lifesaving drugs and therapies, productivity growth, and the new forms of technological innovation that AI itself could help us to unlock. But at a moment like this, it is imperative that Congress understand the full range of risks and potentials to ensure this technology can be developed, deployed, used and regulated, consistent with our core values consistent with our national interest, consistent with civil and human rights.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click here to watch Sen. Ossoff\u2019s opening statement.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Please find a transcript of Sen. Ossoff\u2019s opening statement below.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CHAIRMAN OSSOFF<\/strong>: \u201cThe Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law will come to order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWelcome, all, to today\u2019s hearing. It is great to see a packed house \u2014 it demonstrates the intensity of interest in this subject.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI want to thank you, Ranking Member Blackburn, for working so hard and so closely with me to develop this important bipartisan hearing, and I want to thank each of our witnesses for your participation today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThroughout history, transformative technologies have emerged, with the potential to disrupt societies, economies, and politics profoundly and sometimes very quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMachine learning and artificial intelligence may be such a technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAI capabilities are growing rapidly, and in ways even its creators cannot predict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd already, it\u2019s changing our lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAmerican families are now threatened by AI-enabled scams, made far more sophisticated through this technology than traditional spam email or sham telemarking calls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cToday we will hear from Jennifer DeStefano, who was targeted by a scam using a deepfake of her 15-year-old daughter\u2019s voice to fake her kidnapping and extort a ransom payment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAI also has profound implications for civil rights, for the criminal justice system, for our democratic and Constitutional processes, and for our privacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIts potential impact on the future of work could include fundamental shifts in education, in recruitment, candidate screening and hiring, and perhaps even more significantly, rapid disruption of labor markets as certain professionals are automated.
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\u201cThis technology has profound implications for the future of warfare, as kill chains are automated and predictive technology influences and mediates competition between nation-states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs AI technology develops, great powers competing in an AI arms race, engaged in strategic competition where AI is influencing the decisions made by leaders and militaries, face a different and new risk of escalation and miscalculation.
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\u201cAnd some influential technologists and engineers, including prominent figures and prominent leaders in the industry, warn of existential risks, ranging from catastrophic political destabilization,<\/a> to the development and deployment of weapons of mass destruction, to catastrophic cybersecurity threats, and to unforeseeable and unknown forms of risk that may emergence alongside more and more powerful forms of artificial intelligences.
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\u201cOur study of these technologies and associated risks should not blind us, of course, to this technology\u2019s extraordinary potential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor example, cancer diagnoses, the development of new, lifesaving drugs and therapies, productivity growth, and the new forms of technological innovation that AI itself could help us to unlock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut at a moment like this, it is imperative that Congress understand the full range of risks and potentials to ensure this technology can be developed, deployed, used and regulated, consistent with our core values consistent with our national interest, consistent with civil and human rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo I look forward to a productive conversation with this talented and extraordinary panel this afternoon. And with that, I turn to the ranking member of the Subcommittee, my colleague from Tennessee, Senator Blackburn.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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