Schumer announces Senate will hold 'first-ever Senators-only' hearing on Artificial Intelligence

The U.S. Senate will host its first members-only briefing on Artificial Intelligence this week amid security and election concerns.

"Tomorrow, the Senate will convene the first-ever Senators-only briefing on Artificial Intelligence," Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer tweeted Monday evening.

Domestically, the rapidly evolving technology is being developed and utilized by companies across various industries — to wide appeal and much fanfare.

The proliferation of these AI applications, however, has prompted some concern for the 2024 presidential election as lawmakers and experts warn "deep fakes" and other AI uses could hurt political accountability and disrupt election integrity.

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Internationally, new AI technology is being utilized by adversaries such as Russia and China to boost military capabilities and surveillance.

Several U.S. senators told Fox News they were "very concerned" by AI technology and its potential impact on changing the minds of voters.

Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley, a Republican, said he's "very, very concerned by it."

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Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat, told Fox News similarly spoke to the popularity of fake content being generated by AI technology.

"On a scale of one to 10, I would put my fear at 10 so far as the potential abuses for impersonation, false visual images, deepfakes, voice cloning," Blumenthal said. "Consumers deserve to know when the deepfakes and cloned voices occur."

Ohio Sen. JD Vance, a Republican, told Fox News his "biggest concern" was with how AI is "going to warp our political conversation."

He continued: "There are certainly going to be some viral videos of either Donald Trump or Joe Biden, and it's going to change votes, but it's not going to be them. It's going to be a complete figment of an AI creator's imagination."

The Senators’ comments come as President Biden also addressed AI concerns during his speech at a U.S. Air Force Academy graduation.

"I met in the Oval Office, in my office, with 12 leading — no, excuse me, eight leading scientists — in the area of AI," he said at Falcon Stadium in Colorado. "Some are very worried that AI can actually overtake human thinking and planning."

Biden added: "So we’ve got a lot to deal with."

The president also referred to AI as having "enormous potential and enormous danger," during his Oval Office meeting in May with the head of Google, Microsoft and other companies.

During the same meeting, Vice President Kamala Harris urged these executives to protect Americans from the potential dangers of AI.

"As I shared today with CEOs of companies at the forefront of American AI innovation, the private sector has an ethical, moral, and legal responsibility to ensure the safety and security of their products," she said.

"Every company must comply with existing laws to protect the American people," Harris added.

Fox News' Jon Michael Raasch contributed to this report.

LAURA INGRAHAM: The Pentagon spends time inventing imaginary enemies when we have real ones

Lots of big stories out there getting little coverage by pretend journalists locked on the Trump indictment, conveniently to the exclusion of all of Biden's disasters.

Like the fact that China is building a powerful spy post in Cuba just 100 miles from Miami – no big deal. Or that would probably lose a war defending Taiwan against China right now because we've sent so much of our own weaponry and our own munitions to Ukraine. This from Politico: "The Biden administration has been slow to respond to what's minimally required to prevent an Indo-Pacific catastrophe, which is the need to rapidly build a better deterrent, especially new stockpiles of munitions that would convince China it could be too costly to attack Taiwan. "

But do we even have the capacity to spit out munitions to make up for what we've sent to Zelenskyy? A swift response may not be possible, in large part because of how shrunken the US manufacturing base has become since the Cold War. Who warned about that decades ago? Well, Pat Buchanan, that's who. And later, people like myself and obviously President Trump. And remember when he warned about that, what the Pentagon did to him. 

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Yet, despite these disturbing tales of American military decline, the White House, they don't seem concerned. They have other priorities. 

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Happy pride. Now, the extravaganza really began in earnest the week before where there wasn't any dancing, but the pitch was the same.

…. Well, unfortunately, things don't seem to be getting better. In fact, they're getting worse. The Army will miss its recruiting target this year by a staggering 25%. 

Now, most other branches are in a recruiting mess as well. It's a full-blown crisis. But the Air Force's answer to this, well, check out this tweet. 

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That airman isn't saluting the American flag, but instead is standing in front of something called the Progress Pride flag. But will approaches like this help with enlistment and the deficit there? Now, we, of course, love all of our service members, no matter who they are and are grateful for all of their patriotism and their service. Wouldn't it be irresponsible not to question why our Pentagon is spending so much time inventing imaginary enemies when we actually have real ones?