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Obama and Harris Urge AI Regulation, Proposed Testing Agency
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- Former President Barack Obama and Former Vice President Kamala Harris urged AI regulation and a development slowdown on Monday.
- Harris asked Congress to create a new federal agency to independently test frontier AI models.
- Obama warned that unchecked AI could widen economic inequality and threaten jobs, especially for children.
- AI researchers Dario Amodei, Sam Altman and Elon Musk publicly called for a slowdown in development.