Studio And WGA Leaders To Join Elon Musk, Bill Gates And Other Tech Titans At Senate AI Forum

A gallery of tech industry CEOs, including Tesla/X’s Elon Musk, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and Google’s Sundar Pichai, are scheduled to attend a Senate forum on artificial intelligence next month.

They also will be joined by the president of the WGA, Meredith Stiehm, as well as other union leaders, along with Charles Rivkin, the chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association. The meeting, organized by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, comes as AI is an issue in Hollywood’s current labor strife.

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Schumer is billing this as the first “AI Insight Forum,” and it is scheduled for the morning of Sept. 13. It’s unclear if all of the attendees will be there in person or appear via videoconference.

Outside of the strike, studios are concerned about the impact of AI on protection of content, while they also do not want to see legislation that hinders their own use of the technology in production.

Schumer and senators of both parties are holding the forums in advance of potential regulation.

Others on the list of attendees include BIll Gates, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Satya Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft.

The full list is below:

• Sam Altman, OpenAI – CEO

• Rumman Chowdhury, Humane Intelligence – CEO

• Jack Clark, Anthropic – Co-founder

• Clément Delangue, Hugging Face – CEO

• Eric Fanning, Aerospace Industries Association – President & CEO

• Bill Gates, Microsoft – Former CEO

• Tristan Harris, Center for Humane Technology – Co-founder & ED

• Jensen Huang, NVIDIA – CEO

• Alex Karp, Palantir – Co-founder & CEO

• Arvind Krishna, IBM – CEO

• Janet Murguía, Unidos US – President

• Elon Musk, X/Tesla – CEO

• Satya Nadella, Microsoft – CEO

• Sundar Pichai, Google – CEO

• Deborah Raji, U.C. Berkley – Researcher

• Charles Rivkin, Motion Picture Association – Chairman & CEO

• Eric Schmidt, Google – Former CEO

• Elizabeth Shuler, AFL-CIO – President

• Meredith Stiehm, Writers Guild – President

• Randi Weingarten, American Federation of Teachers – President

• Maya Wiley, Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights – President & CEO

• Mark Zuckerberg, Meta – CEO

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