We must balance the speed and safety of AI races with China, lawmakers say
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Councillors on Wednesday questioned the balance between speed and safety when discussing. artificial intelligence (AI) regulations and the need for the US to control China in the competition to develop emerging technologies.
A bipartisan lawmaker on the House Selection Committee on the Communist Party of China affirmed that the US must lead the AI revolution, rather than the authoritarian forces of China during a hearing on Capitol Hill.
“China is making a full push to control the AGI. This will inevitably be monitored every turn and try to restrain us,” D-Ill said. “We can’t make this happen. The nightmare scenario should be a call to awaken the council.”
“I agree that AI is a new Cold War between the US and China… in fact it’s a Manhattan Project for our generation,” said R-Iowa Sen. Zachnun.
Rep. Dusty Johnson asked expert witnesses about the trade-off between safety and speed when it comes to global race for AI dominance. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc, Getty Images/Getty Images)
Witnesses highlighted the need for the US to lead AI development, saying the federal regulatory framework must be based on trust. Otherwise, the US would risk suppressing development through regulatory overreactions.
Mark Beal, chairman of government affairs for the AI Policy Network, said: “I think smart guardrails at the federal level today will help prevent future regulatory overreactions in a way that harms our (industry).”
“We need a federal framework that can provide a sense of consistent legislative pathway progress,” said Jack Clark, co-founder and policy director of AI Safety and Research Company Anthropic.
Without Clark, he said he was worried about “creating a vacuum” that could lead to regulatory overreactions.
“As my other witnesses said, there must be accidents and misuses. In it, the vacuum is really, really, really, really, very extreme overregulation,” he said.
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Rep. Dusty Johnson, Rs.D. pointed to an obvious conflict between speed and safety in AI races.
“Safety and speed seem to be worth contradictory,” Johnson said. “If you prioritize one, you get a trade-off on the other. I realized that you have to reach safety. And how important is the risk of doing that hindering your ability to win this race?”
Dr. Thomas Manken, president and CEO of the Center for Strategic and Budget Assessment, responded that the United States must rely on deep democratic values and trustworthy associations to innovate, but he fears that fears of safety could hinder the United States.
“If I have more worries, we’re not going fast enough, as we’ll tie ourselves together with a knot that worries us about everything that happens,” Manken said.
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Manken said he is also concerned about overregulation.
“The other concern I have is taking our fear advice and really sabotaging the dynamism that exists in American businesses,” he said.
However, China probably doesn’t have that fear of global race security for AI domination.
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“My suspicion is that there are no parallel conversations on all the risks at the PRC,” Mahnken said.