Mark Warner
Mark Robert Warner is an American businessman and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Virginia, a seat he has held since 2009. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 69th governor of Virginia from 2002 to 2006 and is currently vice chair of the Senate Democratic Caucus and vice chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. He is best known in the technology policy space for his comprehensive legislative agenda on artificial intelligence, including the proposed Secure AI Development Act, which would mandate pre-deployment testing of advanced AI models and establish a voluntary safety incident reporting system.
“Whether it's senators like Booker and Warner on the left.”
Source→“Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) — a former venture capitalist and tech founder — said that Congress 'desperately needs the AI community to come in and help us figure it out.'”
“Senator Warner today came out with a big four-point plan about AI. And he's like, well, we have to address the issue of non-consensual nudity. And it's like, OK, but there are laws against this.”
Source→“Senator Warner's proposed Secure AI Development Act would mandate pre-deployment testing of frontier models and establish a voluntary safety incident reporting system”
Source→“One lesson I've learned over years of overseeing the Intelligence Community is that our greatest national security failures often come when we recognize a threat but fail to act until after a crisis.”
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