[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 186 (Thursday, November 9, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S5438]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                        Artificial Intelligence

  Mr. President, on our AI Insight Forum, yesterday, the Senate held 
our fifth and sixth bipartisan AI Insight Forums. Both AI Insight 
Forums were a huge success. We learned a lot; we had a lot of good 
discussions; we all left with a better understanding of the ways AI is 
already reshaping our world.
  Our Elections and Democracy AI Insight Forum was especially 
informative. It is the area that requires the most immediate action 
because the 2024 elections are fast approaching, and we know there have 
already been--and always have been--bad actors trying to jaundice our 
elections. But we agreed, we agreed in the forum, that AI will be a 
dramatic force multiplier for the spread of disinformation.
  We also agreed that government can't alone act to create guardrails 
to protect our elections in the age of AI. I was proud to see three 
major companies in the room during the AI Insight Forum--Meta, 
Microsoft, and Google--come out and say they supported legislation to 
create these guardrails.
  We also agreed that we need to act quickly to secure our democracy in 
the age of AI because time is of the essence ahead of next year's 
elections. It may be the thing we have to do first when it comes to 
legislating and creating guardrails in AI.