*How a billionaire-backed network of AI advisers took over Washington*
/A sprawling network spread across Congress, federal agencies and think
tanks is pushing policymakers to put AI apocalypse at the top of the
agenda — potentially boxing out other worries and benefiting top AI
companies with ties to the network./
By Brendan Bordelon
10/13/2023 05:00 AM EDT
An organization backed by Silicon Valley billionaires and tied to
leading artificial intelligence firms is funding the salaries of more
than a dozen AI fellows in key congressional offices, across federal
agencies and at influential think tanks.
The fellows funded by Open Philanthropy, which is financed primarily by
billionaire Facebook co-founder and Asana CEO Dustin Moskovitz
<https://www.openphilanthropy.org/about-us/> and his wife Cari Tuna, are
already involved in negotiations that will shape Capitol Hill’s
accelerating plans to regulate AI. And they’re closely tied to a
powerful influence network that’s pushing Washington to focus on the
technology’s long-term risks — a focus critics fear will divert Congress
from more immediate rules that would tie the hands of tech firms.
[...]
continua qui:
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/13/open-philanthropy-funding-ai-policy-00121362
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