[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 175 (Tuesday, October 24, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S5126]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                        Artificial Intelligence

  Mr. President, now, on our second AI Insight Forum, later this 
afternoon the Senate will hold our second bipartisan AI Insight Forum, 
focusing on our North Star for AI: innovation. Our forum begins at 3 
today in the Kennedy Caucus Room, and I encourage my colleagues from 
both sides of the aisle to attend.
  We had a strong bipartisan turnout for our inaugural AI Insight 
Forum, and I hope we will see the same today. It is important to show 
how bipartisan and how seriously we are taking AI here in the Senate.
  Today's AI Insight Forum includes some of the Nation's leading voices 
in labor, academia, business, tech, civil rights, and others, coming 
together to hold an unvarnished, candid, and urgent debate on AI. The 
topic today will be how Congress and the private sector can foster 
innovation. We will talk about the need for transformative innovation--
the types of AI systems that will create new vistas, unlock new cures, 
improve education, protect national security, preserve the global food 
supply, and more. But we will also talk about the need for sustainable 
innovation--innovations that can solve the deep challenges of AI, like 
increasing transparency and security, and reducing bias and risk. And 
this means supporting effective guardrails, because everyone agreed at 
our last forum, from one end of the spectrum to the other, that if the 
Federal Government doesn't impose some guardrails, there will be none, 
and the whole invention of AI could come tumbling down.
  We need to prioritize both transformative and sustainable innovation. 
We must find a balance between innovation and guardrails, without going 
too far in one direction and hurting the other.
  And I want to thank my colleagues in our bipartisan AI little gang--
Senators Round, Heinrich, and Young--for helping to organize and run 
today's AI Insight Forum.
  Again, for the information of Senators, our forum begins at 3 p.m. 
today in the Kennedy Caucus Room. I hope to see you all there.