In the first of what promises to be many hearings in Congress around AI, a topic that was described as "a printing press moment," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, IBM's Chief Privacy/Trust Officer and AI Ethics Chair Christina Montgomery, and NYU's Professor Emeritus Gary Marcus testified this week in front of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law. This hearing was a welcome change in both tonality and approach from previous tech hearings, but the discussions also provided insights to which the advertising and media industries should pay close attention.
Mr. Altman Goes to Washington
