[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 88 (Tuesday, May 21, 2024)]
[House]
[Page H3390]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      SAFE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

  (Mr. KILEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KILEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise to urge passage of the Ensuring Safe 
and Ethical AI Development Through SAFE AI Research Grants Act. This is 
bipartisan legislation that I have introduced.
  Just recently, the company OpenAI unveiled the latest chat bot model 
which had some truly amazing new features. Yet shortly after that, 
there was an exodus of employees from the company devoted to safety 
with one of them even saying that this part of the company is not 
receiving the compute that it needs to.
  Now, I don't know if that is true, and I don't know the particulars 
of what is going on in that company, but it does underscore the fact 
that we cannot rely or assume that companies are devoting the attention 
to safety issues that they should.
  I do think there is a role for the Federal Government to catalyze 
cutting-edge AI safety research. That is what my legislation does, and 
I think it is of the highest urgency that Congress assure that as we 
look ahead to the limitless potential benefits of AI, that we do 
whatever we can to understand the risks and take the steps that we need 
to mitigate them.

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