AI Threats Confront Eager Congress Grappling With Learning Curve

Leaders of artificial intelligence companies are making an unusual request to Congress as their industry advances: establish safeguards to mitigate threats their technology poses.

The “stakes are too high for Congress not to act at this moment,” said Ryan Hagemann, co-director of IBM Policy Lab from International Business Machines Corp,which has been calling for risk-based regulation for AI for more than three years.

Tools such as OpenAI Inc.’s ChatGPT that collect data from users have raised privacy concerns. New language models have the ability to write songs, produce visuals, and mimic real-life artists without their consent. Human bias and ...