Speaker Mike Johnson tells CNBC he hopes AI guardrails are voluntary
House Speaker Mike Johnson said he hopes safety guardrails for AI will be “voluntary”, speaking to CNBC on Tuesday. Johnson spoke on the channel’s “Squawk Box” hours before a meeting with AI leaders and President Donald Trump in Washington.
“I hope it’s voluntary. We’ll find out what comes out of the meeting today. I think that that’s where they’re headed,” Johnson told CNBC.
The executives “see the handwriting on the wall”, Johnson said. He said they want to assure investors, consumers and the public that they will build AI in a very safe way. He said he favours “striking the right balance” with the technology.
Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, is due to meet Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and Alphabet’s Sundar Pichai at the White House lunch, CNBC reported.
Liability “doesn’t come up”
CNBC asked whether AI companies raise possible exemptions from liability in future rules. Johnson...
Copyright of this story solely belongs to thenextweb.com. To see the full text click HERE
