TL;DL
On Tuesday, May 16th, 2023, the U.S. Senate held a Subcommittee Hearing on AI. Among the witnesses, Sam Altman (CEO - OpenAI), Christina Montgomery (Chief Privacy & Trust Officer - IBM), and Gary Marcus (Professor Emeritus - New York University).
This episode is a “live listen and react” featuring commentary from myself, and A Priori. The overall hearing is nearly 3 hours long, so this is part one, and coves the first hour of the hearing.
The hearing is worth watching/listening to even if you don’t care for our commentary - lots of good information to consider and discuss in your circles. You can watch the original recording in the link above, or on any of a number Youtube videos like the one embedded below:
References
Bad Advice
During one of the testimonies, a witness calls out a story about an AI that was giving inappropriate advice to a 13 year old in a “potential grooming” situation with a chat bot that didn’t seem concerned at all.
I chimed in that I was aware of the story, and if it’s the same one I’m thinking of, it was a pretend/undercover test of the system that you can watch below (if the link doesn’t jump to it, the story starts at the 47 min mark):
Readers who watched The A.I. Dilemma from the previous podcast episode will also likely remember the reference - which is a funny coincidence since this was from back in early March.
Sentiment Analysis
Second bit I called out was how companies and PR firms are already scouring through all of your social media to profile your behavior and tailor persuasive marketing.
This 100% exists and a quick search turns up MonkeyLearn, who has a pretty good comprehensive guide on sentiment analysis.
Oversight of A.I.: Rules for Artificial Intelligence (Part 1)