[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 120 (Thursday, July 13, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2445-S2446]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                        Artificial Intelligence

  Mr. President, now on AI, last night, I informed my colleagues that 
we will hold our third all-Senate briefing on AI on Wednesday, July 26. 
Our first briefing focused on the state of AI as it stands today. Our 
second briefing, held earlier this week, was a classified presentation 
on AI's national security implications.
  Our third briefing will turn to the future. We will hear from Federal 
researchers and developers about where AI is headed in the years to 
come and

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how it will continue to change our world.
  I encourage all Members to attend this important briefing. I am also 
pleased to announce that our presenters for that day will be Rick 
Stevens, from the Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, 
and Dr. Sethuraman Panchanathan--he is the head of the NSA; he is known 
as Panch; it is easier to say--and Dr. Kathleen Fisher, from the 
Information Innovation Office at DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research 
Projects Agency. Our moderator will be Dr. Jos-Marie Griffiths, a 
member of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence 
and president of Dakota State University.
  So it is a broad range of presenters from academic, defense, energy, 
and scientific backgrounds. It will be a great discussion and a truly 
important one because Senators have no time to waste learning as much 
about AI as possible.
  AI is going to be a regular part of our lives from here on out. Rapid 
change may, at times, seem frightening, but if applied correctly, AI 
promises to transform life on Earth for the better.
  But there are real risks too. We must now work to anticipate the 
risks, mitigate them, and ensure that AI innovation is safe in the 
decades to come. So I encourage all Senators to attend the briefing on 
the 26th. I thank our presenters who will join us that day, and I thank 
my colleagues--particularly Senators Rounds, Heinrich, and Young--for 
working together as a team in putting this briefing together.