Insights from Sam Altman's AI testimony before Congress and Senate.

Lawmakers at a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing stressed the need to establish guardrails for AI before its greatest harms emerge, comparing the risks of AI to those of social media. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testified for the first time and agreed that a new system to deal with AI is needed. Several lawmakers brought up Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the law that has served as the tech industry's legal liability shield for more than two decades. The hearing had a somewhat skeptical but not quite combative tone toward industry members on the panel.