Murthy was not alone in sounding the alarm. Jim Steyer, founder and CEO of Common Sense Media, the organizer of the conference, told the mostly supportive crowd that recent history had proved that the industry leaders or, as he called them “tech broligarchs,” could not be relied upon to create digital information systems that were safe or healthy for children. “We did not get out in front of social media in time,” he told the gathering. “This is the moment. AI is a bigger deal. It's basically social media on steroids.”
Specifically, the new law, which goes into effect in January, will ban chatbots from encouraging suicide, self-harm, secrecy, or isolation and from discouraging children to seek help from other humans. They will also be banned from engaging in sexually explicit interactions and restricted from using a child’s past personal or health information in later conversations.
Panelists called for a range of protective and preventative remedies for what they described as the coming tsunami of AI, including requiring more data transparency from tech companies by enabling regulatory agencies and researchers to get more access to the information they’re holding, using consumer-protection laws to ensure that AI models have been rigorously tested for potential negative outcomes, adopting the European model of not allowing AI companies to deploy their platforms until they have proved they are safe, or even instituting criminal penalties for AI companies who unleash unsafe technologies. “As a former prosecutor, I can tell you one thing,” said New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez, who earlier this month won a $25 billion judgment against Meta. “When you bring out handcuffs, suddenly everything changes.”
The summit also touched on the enormous implications AI is having on education and students’ ability to work and learn, when answers are in such ready supply. “MIT just did a report saying every assignment at MIT could be done by generative AI,” said John King, a former U.S. Secretary of Education and current chancellor of State University in New York. King is considering major changes to student assessment. “We have to make sure we are seeing the students do the work, and we have to make sure they're getting those foundational skills,” he said. “It literally means every faculty member reassessing what they assign and how they measure student learning.” And, as Clinton pointed out, this is an equity issue too. “We know that in families with less than $30,000 of household income, teenagers are three times more likely to either largely or entirely do their homework through artificial intelligence than those households with family incomes of $75,000 or more,” she said.
While there was little consensus on the immediate steps to take as AI arrives, there was no argument that it will be consequential for children, families, and generations to come. “As we go into this age of transformation,” Murthy noted, “the question forced upon us is the following: What aspects of human existence do we want to protect and preserve at all costs?”
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