JUST IN: VP Kamala Harris Holds Roundtable On Artificial Intelligence

protections she was attorney general listen to this List when she was attorney general in the state of California when I lived there and in her work there she protected seniors from online scammers she protected women and girls from online harassment she protected consumers from privacy violations and established the privacy protection and enforcement unit within the California Department of Justice and was

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, it's difficult imagine someone with more relevant experience and capabilities uh than the vice president that we have sitting in the seat the vice president convened a group of AI CEOs in early May and brought them together here at the White House to hold them accountable for their role and how AI is developed.

She told them that you have not only a legal but also a moral responsibility to make sure your products are safe before they go out into the world and that was the prelude to this very important meeting so that we can focus on civil rights. and consumer protection, so we're very fortunate to have you in your seat Adam vice president thank you director provoke thank you and for your leadership and your hard work with all of these issues that really affect every person in our country in a number of ways, first I want to thank all the leaders for taking the time to be here at this meeting that I shared with you.

I intend to listen as much as I will talk. In fact, I intend to listen more than I talk because I want to hear from you the president wants to hear from you we want to know from your perspective how this issue will affect different people in our country, which is the question of how AI will affect their lives in various ways, whether that be through the life they live as seniors and what their strengths may be, but also their vulnerabilities through the lens of workers and what this means in terms of their work life and the protections and rights that they are entitled to, whether "We're thinking about this in terms of how it affects children, how it affects the future of industries, how it affects our country's economy, there are so many components to this." , there is the component that I think at this point has been well documented about the legitimate concern that many of us have about how racial bias and other types of bias will affect people's lives because of AI and what we need to do to face that and I think the first part of this topic that should be articulated AI is a fancy thing, first of all it's two letters, it means

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intelligence, but ultimately it's about machine learning, so you teach the machine and part of the problem here is what information goes into the machine. will then determine and we can predict them if we think about what machine, what information is coming in, what will then be produced in terms of decisions and opinions that can be made through that process, to reduce it to its simplest point, this is Part of the problem that What we have here is to think about what a decision entails and then whether that decision is really legitimate and reflects the needs and life experiences of all people and therefore a big part of what we will also discuss then is transparency in terms of the processes through which AI is actually having an impact on decisions.

Do we understand the technology? Do we know what is happening in the decisions that are made? So this is a very multifaceted issue and issue and I also know that this is a rapidly developing technology and therefore part of the common purpose that we have is a sense of urgency to confront this problem in terms of understanding the implications for us to work as a community of people. private sector public sector nonprofits government do what is best for the health, safety and well-being of the people of our country and ultimately that's how I think about this so I want to thank everyone present that the issues are again it will be about privacy, it will be about the concern that we have about what this could mean in terms of workers and workplaces, the issue that is a very big concern for all of us, which is misinformation and misinformation, a growing concern, especially As we also know, there may be a reduction in resources being devoted to this issue and what we must then do collectively when we agree that no one benefits from the widespread spread of misinformation and disinformation , and then of course the concern that we have about threatening the basic rights that all people should be treated as equal and without prejudice in the way that they are treated, I would also ask that, as part of the way that we think about This as a community of people we understand that it is a false choice to suggest that we can advance innovation or protect consumers, we can do both, as the Director has said.

I have spent much of my career working on this topic and always guided by the belief that innovation is so important. There are many possibilities to improve the condition of human life and to the extent that we can encourage that approach, we should not in any way stop or slow down innovation that can improve the condition of people's lives and we should also ensure that in that process we are We are not trampling on people's rights, we are not suppressing the rights that people have, whether it is in the workplace, whether it is privacy rights or other types of rights, so a guiding principle for us and for our Administration is that we reject a false election. that suggests it's one or the other and that we will move forward in a way that encourages innovation, but in a way that protects consumers and protects all people who may be vulnerable to unintended consequences, in particular.

I think of older people as a director. has said that I have done a lot of work throughout my career primarily as a prosecutor worrying about the vulnerability of our seniors and the need to ensure that they have the important information to equip them with the ability to not be victims of predators it is about establishing protections knowing that certain people will be targeted based on their socioeconomic status based on their race based on their disability status. Yesterday I called a group of disability rights activists together and we want to make sure we are aware. and intentional on those populations of people who are particularly vulnerable and then we want to make sure that we are thinking about the impact of this on our justice systems and as someone who has worked on criminal justice reform like many of you at this table. and with many of you at this table we want to make sure that in those systems where we know that bias has already existed, this does not increase or exasperate the concerns that we have about the results in those systems, so with all that I will say that this issue is, Ultimately, on consumer rights, it's about privacy, it's about investment and innovation, but at the same time and certainly for us in our role, having people's health, safety and well-being as our first priority. of our country, etc.

With that I thank you all for being here, we are going to continue to do this work together with a sense of urgency and a commitment to the Solutions, so with that I thank you all and the director, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.