A pair of Democratic senators have called on the Government Accountability Office to investigate the potential harms of generative artificial intelligence (AI), algorithms that can create everything from videos and music to software code and product design.
In a letter to U.S. Comptroller General Gene Dodaro, Sens. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Gary Peters (D-Mich.), the latter the chair of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, said a detailed technology assessment was called for given the potential for that technology to “directly harm vulnerable communities or risk widespread injury, death or human extinction.”
