Marsha Blackburn talks about content creators’ issues with AI
Sen. shared. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., her takeaways from Tuesday’s AI hearing with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. He also revealed what next steps he and his colleagues are willing to take to protect consumer data amid the AI boom.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., is calling on Congress to pass an internet user privacy standard as a first step toward ensuring that Americans are informed and their data is secure amid rapidly advancing technology. artificial intelligence (AI).
Blackburn is one of four Republicans on the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on intellectual property (IP). The panel is holding a hearing Wednesday afternoon titled, “Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property – Part I: Patents, Innovation, and Competition.”
“We’re going to look at it from an IP angle because when you watch what China is doing, and how they’re pushing people from all over the world to come to China and file their patents with AI, it’s different” t other applications and uses. And they filed correctly in 1.6 million applications. That’s more than double the number filed in the US…using AI,” he said. “We should not let this issue sit there without addressing the threat it poses to our innovators in the US.”
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Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., raises concerns about China’s use of AI for intellectual property theft
The senator is referring to statistics from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) showing China filed more patents than the US and Europe in 2021, more than 1.5 million. China also filed nearly 75% of the world’s total number of AI patents in the last decade.
However, the ruling Chinese Communist Party has for years been accused of stealing American intellectual property — an effort that Blackburn worries will only get better with AI.
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“I know this is a source of aggravation for many of our innovators — whether they’re in the consumables market or after-market auto parts, or you know, electric car parts or music. ,” Blackburn said. “The thing is, a lot of people don’t know they’ve been pirated until someone sends something to fix, and they realize they didn’t do it… It’s something that’s infringed on a patent or copyright.”
The Chinese Communist Party has been accused of stealing US intellectual property for years (Photo by Jack Taylor/Pool via AP)
Asked about what steps Congress could take to protect Americans’ IP, especially as China’s AI capabilities grow more advanced, Blackburn suggested lawmakers start by making sure data is safe of users online.
“I think the first thing we need to do is pass an online consumer privacy protection standard. That law needs to be passed,” she said. “You have to give the individual the right to protect their information online and keep it in that open source, firewall their information and their use of the virtual space.”
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Intellectual property and AI will be the focus of the hearing of the Senate Judiciary subcommittee led by Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del. (Mateusz Wlodarczyk/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
“Secondly, there’s going to be a discussion, and we’re going to do more of it, how you handle the patent copyright issue. Because our law doesn’t cover things that are created through technology. They cover things that people file. So we have to figure that part out,” Blackburn added.
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The AI and intellectual property hearing is scheduled for 3 pm this afternoon. Senators are scheduled to hear from tech policy experts as well as executives from Google and Novartis.
