“When Senator Schumer asked everyone, ‘Does the government need to get involved to regulate AI?’ Every single person including all the CEOs, Elon, Zuckerberg etc, raise their hand to say yes,” Harris said.

“I think that was an unprecedented and important step forward, not because I’m excited about government regulation, because I’m excited about having a future that’s safe. Because if we don’t have something that mitigates this race between AI companies, it will end in tragedy.”

He unequivocally affirmed that it represents a danger to humanity.

Harris rejected the notion that the future of AI is uncertain and that worries about inhibiting innovation should deter discussions about regulation.

“We can predict the future, because we know where that race is going, which is, it’s not a race to cure cancer and to solve climate change and to invent materials that help us do things, it’s a race to just release these new capabilities. Last year, you couldn’t take three seconds of someone’s voice and then speak in their voice to your bank or to your grandma. Now you can,” Harris said.

“Why are we releasing these things? Because as soon as one person releases those capabilities, the other companies also have to release more capabilities. So it’s the race to release, which is the race to just drive risks in society.

“And the reason that I’m so confident that the current path — unless something changes — is going to end so badly, is because there’s so many risks that come from racing to just release as fast as possible.”

“I think that what is required is unprecedented for this Congress and for human history,” Harris said.

“This is an unprecedented technology, which will require an unprecedented response, it’s not going to be as simple as passing a law.”

He added, “We didn’t talk about specific regulatory agencies. Elon, surprisingly, did speak to the fact that . . . 99.99% of the time, he’s very happy that the FAA exists. And he’s happy that FDA exists, even though the FDA has problems. It’s good to live in a world where you have some kind of referee that’s trying to govern an otherwise very crazy race with a very dangerous technology.”

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