Transcript: Senate Hearing Addressing the National Security Implications of AI

Senator Mark Warner (D-VA), Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee at a hearing on September 19, 2023 in Washington DC. Source On Tuesday, September 19, 2023 the US Senate Intelligence Committee held a hearing on Advancing Intelligence in the Era of Artificial Intelligence: Addressing the National Security Implications of AI, chaired by Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA). Witnesses included: Dr. Benjamin Jensen, Senior Fellow, CSIS and Professor, Marine Corps University School of Advanced Warfighting (written testimony) Dr. Jeffrey Ding, Assistant Professor of Political Science, George Washington University (written testimony) Dr. Yann LeCun, Vice President and Chief AI Scientist, Meta Platforms and Silver Professor of Computer Science and Data Science, at New York University (written testimony) What follows is a lightly edited transcript of the discussion. Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA): Dr. Yann LeCun, Chief AI Scientist at Meta and as I’ve learned one of the real pioneers of machine learning, Dr. LeCun, really great to have you. Dr. Benjamin Jensen, who is the senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a professor at the Marine Corps University School of Advanced War Fighting. Welcome Dr. Jensen. And Dr. Jeffrey Ding, who is professor of political science at my alma mater, George Washington University and author of the influential China AI Newsletter on China’s AI landscape. I also want thank all of my colleagues who’ve been interested in this, but particularly Senator Rounds and Senator Heinrich who had been working with Leader Schumer on a series of other AI forms…Transcript: Senate Hearing Addressing the National Security Implications of AI