Axios' AI+ Summit

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Axios' Ashley Gold interviews Sen. Amy Klobuchar in Washington yesterday. Photo: Eric Lee/Axios Speakers at Axios' AI+ Summit in D.C. gave a range of prescriptions for tipping AI's looming social impact in a positive direction, Axios managing editor Scott Rosenberg writes: Both Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Alexandra Reeve Givens, CEO of the Center for Democracy & Technology, said legislators' priority should be preventing AI from disrupting elections. "If there's one thing we better get done soon, I think it's that," Klobuchar said. Eric Schmidt, Google's former CEO, urged the creation of an international organization of experts — like the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — to feed global leaders AI advice. Rohit Chopra, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, said regulators should use existing and new laws to ensure that the financial fruits of AI are widely distributed rather than concentrated. Tom Graham, CEO of Metaphysic, said U.S. law should recognize individuals' right to own their AI likenesses: We have the right to control our physical bodies and should have a similar interest in our digital representations, he argued. AI expert Rumman Chowdhury said the ethical dimension is so important because if people end up distrusting AI, they won't adopt it. Watch the video ... More coverage.