Please don't fall for these dumb gimmicks.<p>Regulating emerging tech only benefits the incumbents.<p>On a side note, that guy used to be a state attorney general before he became a senator which is not an uncommon trajectory unfortunately, his kind (prosecutors) aren't equipped to formulate meaningful laws and regs they're mindset is that of banning things outright and supporting prosecution and long prison sentences to generate headlines and further their careers.
More on this: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-65610337" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-65610337</a><p>I'd have expected multiple new submissions on this (given it's Sam Altman) but can't see anything and my submissions (one with a repeat in case I messed it up) aren't showing.
I think it's smart, it makes it tangible to an audience that has time and time again demonstrated incompetence at understanding technology when explained with any level of abstraction.
> OpenAI CEO Testifies on Artificial Intelligence<p>> OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, whose company created ChatGPT, is one of three artificial intelligence experts testifying on oversight of the swiftly developing technology at a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing<p><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?528117-1/openai-ceo-testifies-artificial-intelligence" rel="nofollow">https://www.c-span.org/video/?528117-1/openai-ceo-testifies-...</a>
Recording of the opening: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dfd6J3M-FSk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dfd6J3M-FSk</a>