Monument’s Joseph Hoefer spoke with Bloomberg Government about dueling events – one funded by top tech companies including OpenAI and Alphabet Inc.’s Google, the other sponsored by the powerful labor union AFL-CIO – stood out in a week of AI forums across the nation’s capital. Taken together, they highlighted the starkly different views on what role the government should take in shaping AI’s future.
“What’s interesting isn’t just the volume of events” but “how differently the same technology is being framed depending on the room,” said Joseph Hoefer, AI policy lead at lobbying firm Monument Advocacy, which represents clients like Waymo and Accenture