Congress Grapples with AI Revolution, ChatGPT

Separate hearings were held by senators and representatives March 8, on artificial intelligence’s perils and promises. This is a sign of lawmakers growing regulatory appetite following the Biden administration’s action on this technology.

“AI is no longer a matter of science fiction nor is it a technology confined to research labs. AI is a technology that is already being deployed and broadly adopted as we speak,” said Aleksander Mądry, a computing professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in written testimony For the House hearing held by House Oversight’s Subcommittee on Cybersecurity Information Technology and Government Innovation

A similar hearing was held earlier that day by the Senate Homeland Security & Government Affairs Committee. Brown University Professor Suresh Vandasubramanian was one of the Senate witnesses. He contributed to the Biden Administration’s new initiative. “AI Bill of Rights,” In Oct. 2022, it was released with very little fanfare.

Venkatasubramanian, also praised Biden’s executive order on February 20, 2023 regarding racial equity. This directive directs federal agencies explicitly to “[advance] equity” When using AI systems.

The Trump administration launched the American Artificial Intelligence Initiative in 2019. This initiative was established before the Biden Administration took action on AI.

Through 2021, his fiscal year budget proposalTrump sought to also double the federal nondefense AI research & technology spending.

House Talks AI

Eric Schmidt, former Google CEO, outlined three AI expectations of platforms in his testimony to the House. He believes that everyone would accept them.

“First, platforms must, at minimum, be able to establish the origin of the content published on their platform. Second, we need to know who specifically is on the platform representing each user or organization profile. Third, the site needs to publish and be held accountable to its published algorithms for promoting and choosing content,” He said: written testimony.

Rep. Nancy Mace (Republican-States of California), chairing the House’s cybersecurity committee, demonstrated the potential for new AI innovations very clearly.

The opening statement she gave was made by OpenAI’s ChatGPT platform. ChatGPT, a generative AI technology that convincingly imitates human writing and visual art, is one example.

“We need to establish guidelines for AI development and use. We need to establish a clear legal framework to hold companies accountable for the consequences of their AI systems,” Mace as-ChatGPT.

In her AI-written statement, she warned AI could also be dangerous “be used to automate jobs, invade privacy, and perpetuate inequality.”

Rep. Gerry Connolly (R.Va.), was named the subcommittee’s ranking member. Connolly noted that much of the infrastructure for the Information Age was laid by the federal government half a hundred years ago. This suggests that there could be precedent for more intense federal involvement.

U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, (ARPANET), is the precursor to the Internet. The U.S. Department of Defense was responsible for this network, which was a result of pioneering computer scientist J.C.R. Licklider.

Jason Matheny, Rand Corporation’s spokesperson on national security issues, spoke before the Senate.

These include “the potential applications of AI to design pathogens that are much more destructive than those found in nature,” According to him written testimony.

Bias a Concern

You can find the state levelOver the last half-decade, AI-related legislation was introduced across the country.

The 2019 Illinois State Fair was an unprecedented success. Artificial Intelligence Video Interview Act. Employers who employ AI to examine video interview candidates must disclose this information to their employees before they conduct the interview.

Employers are required to collect data about the race and ethnicity from such interviewees under a 2022 amendment in order to detect racial biases during future hiring.

Merve Hickok, a University of Michigan intermittent lecturer and AI ethicist, raised similar concerns at the House cybersecurity hearing.

Hickok’s prescriptions? Hickok’s prescriptions include, among other things: additional hearings as well as a possibility “Algorithmic Safety Bureau.”

“You need to hear from those who are falsely identified by facial recognition [and those] wrongly denied credit and jobs because of bias built in algorithmic systems,” She said: written testimony.

ChatGPT’s politics

Some are worried about ChatGPT’s leftward leanings.

Jeff Carlson, EpochTV has written About the apparent political bias in the programme’s coverage of everything, Biden and Trump included to the events on Jan. 6, 2021.

Carlson writes that ChatGPT falsely claimed Officer Brian Sicknick had been murdered by protesters in the second case. The ChatGPT corrected this claim upon being prompted.

“ChatGPT appeared to ‘know’ that its first response was purposefully misleading—but only after it had been caught in the lie. This was a pattern that would be repeated in subsequent conversations with ChatGPT,” Carlson wrote.

Marc Andreessen, a venture capitalist has warned of the ideologic dimension to current AI debates and their potential dangers.

“It’s not an accident that the standard prescriptions for putative AI risk are ‘draconian repression of human freedom’ and ‘free money for everyone,'” Andreessen wrote On Twitter

“The outcome of the AI safety argument has to be global authoritarian crackdown on a level that would make Stalin blush. It’s the only way to be sure,” He added.