U.S. senators and technology experts met for the second of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's AI Insight Forums Oct. 24. Among the 21 invitees were venture capitalists, academics, civil rights campaigners, and industry figures. The discussion at the second Insight Forum, which was closed to the public, focused on how AI could enable innovation, and the innovation required to ensure that AI progress is safe, according to a press release from Schumer's office. In the previous forum, attended by the CEOs of most of the large tech companies, Schumer asked who agreed that some sort of legislation would be required. This time, he asked for a show of hands to see who agreed whether significant federal funding would be required to support AI innovation. Again, all hands were raised, according to Suresh Venkatasubramanian, a professor of data science and computer science at Brown University, who attended the forum.