Gates, Musk, Zuckerberg Descend on DC for Closed-Door Senate AI Hearing

Hearing comes as lawmakers and agencies in the U.S. and worldwide scramble to address AI in the wake of headline-grabbing developments over the past year.

SpaceX, Twitter and electric car maker Tesla CEO Elon Musk attends an event during the Vivatech technology startups and innovation fair at the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre in Paris, on June 16, 2023. Joel Saget/AFP via Getty Images

Bill Gates, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg are among the big names from Big Tech slated to appear at the Senate’s closed-door AI Insight Forum on Sept. 13.

“Both parties recognize that AI is something we can’t ignore, but we need a lot of help understanding the best way forward,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said in a Sept. 7 announcement of the closed-door hearing.