Public Citizen Energy Director Sounds Alarm on Lack of AI Guardrails in House Oversight Committee Hearing
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Public Citizen Energy Director Tyson Slocum will testify at a hearing held by the House Oversight Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs on “America’s AI Moonshot: The Economics of AI, Data Centers, and Power Consumption.
“The significant corporate concentration of AI resources, coupled with the lack of adequate guardrails to prevent widespread abuse, renders any potential benefits of AI development and deployment vulnerable to failure.” Slocum writes in his prepared testimony. “The economic and social disruptions, along with massive energy consumption and water usage posed by AI require significant public regulation. A potential model would be public utility-style regulation of the private AI industry that fosters competition, prevents abuses of power and ensures that unnecessary fossil fuel generation is not constructed while other solutions are readily available.”
Slocum’s full testimony can be found here. He is available for press interviews after the hearing; please contact Patrick Davis, pdavis@citizen.org, with any questions or requests.
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