Which Tech CEOs Attended a Recent Closed-Door Meeting, and Why Wasn't It Open to the Public?

The Senate held a private panel on Wednesday with the top elite people for the tech world. It was basically, if you read the headlines, it read Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates meet with Chuck Schumer behind closed doors. Now, that's kind of, you know, it sounds, if you read the headline, you'd go, what are you, behind closed doors? These guys meeting with Chuck Schumer. What's he, what's shady deals being traded here? And the truth is, is that there's a lot more to that story than you think. Not only was Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg there, but you also have open CEO, open AI CEO, Sam Altman, that's Chad GPT. You have Nvidia CEO, Jensen Huang. You have Planeteer, Alex Karp, IBM CEO, Arvind Krishna. You have Microsoft CTO, Satya Nadella. And then you have Alphabet CEO or Google CEO, and then their former CEO. And also included wasn't only these tech gurus and these AI innovators, but also you had people like the Motion Picture Association chairman, Charles Livkin. You have the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. AFL-CIO. Basically, they're in charge of the largest federations of unions in the United States. So their president, Liz Shuler, was there. The Writers Guild president was there. American Federation of Teachers president was there. And the Leadership Congress on Civil and Human Rights president was there. So it's pretty interesting to think now out of our congressional representatives, there were a hundred senators that were invited. So every senator was invited to this private panel that happened behind closed doors. Sixty of them showed up and they basically went through the concerns about what's going on with AI and the threats that AI could say. So Elon's first thing is that we need to create a referee type person who's in charge of regulating AI development for our country on a whole, which makes sense. Now, there was a thing that came out about mid-June for OpenAI's chat GPT. They took off the filters and they took off everything and they wanted to see kind of what it would say. So if you pull up this Twitter. So this is a post from mid-June that says, Microsoft's AI threatened to kill members of the World Economic Forum, sparking fresh concerns about AI safety. The incident occurred when the AI had no filter and was told not to lie. Experts say it's just copying nonsense on the internet. Now, you could say it's nonsense on the internet. You can say it's this or that or the other thing. But I mean, you take the filters off, you can see really what's going on. I mean, how many times have you said take off the filter and to see what something really looks like? Filters are put on to disguise or to, you know, enhance something to look differently. So a part of this meeting, I would say, was catapulted by that conversation. If the World Economic Forum and the people that basically run our world are feeling threatened by higher intelligence like AI, there's a good possibility they're going to want to put some restrictions on it and they're going to want to talk to the top people in the world working on AI. Interestingly enough, everybody on this list kind of plays on the same field except Elon. Elon, in my mind, is kind of like the outcast. So I think it might have been a pretty unique experience to sit there and watch Elon Musk communicate with these different groups of people like, you know, the Writers Guild president, who I could see why they're there because Chad GPT, I mean, it's not the greatest writer in the world, but it'll get about 80% of the work done before you have to go in and then clean up the mess. But cleaning up the mess is a lot easier than building the building. So I could see why they would want to be involved in this conversation. It makes a lot of sense because that's where all of the writers make their money. But in my mind, the writers just need to become better editors and use Chad GPT for their advantage, you know? So if they have writer's block, Chad GPT could help them and push them to the next level. And so it's interesting to really look at this whole thing and, you know, why was it behind closed doors? Well, the first question I asked was exactly why can't we see it? What's going on? And Chuck Schumer's answer to that was the time limits that happen and take place would not allow us to really dive into a full conversations. So therefore, they wanted to have this first meeting behind closed doors. Part of me says they're having this meeting because they don't want to alarm the public. If the first conversation with Elon Musk is behind closed doors, he might release some very alarming information. And there might be some reactions from senatorial people that had no idea really what's going on because I feel like half of them don't even know what's going on with day-to-day living in our society. They're more worried about who's donating to their next campaign. That's another dirty money topic. So ultimately, they did say that they're going to have future forums that are going to be open to the public. So I'm interested to see how those future forums work and if they're going to bring together such a powerful group of tech CEOs for all of us to observe and see. I'm sure C-SPAN will carry it, doubt it will get any airplay, meaning not a lot of people will watch it. But if it does come up, I'll be happy to tell people about it.