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      A growing number of experts are calling for a pause on advanced AI development and deployment.

      Report Urges Curbs on Development of 'Deceptive and Dangerous' Human-Like AI

      "Lawmakers and regulators must step up and confront this threat before it's too late," the report's author warns.

      Brett Wilkins
      Sep 26, 2023

      Tech companies are creating and deploying artificial intelligence systems "that deceptively mimic human behavior to aggressively sell their products and services, dispense dubious medical and mental health advice, and trap people in psychologically dependent, potentially toxic relationships with machines," according to a report published Tuesday by Public Citizen.

      The report—entitled Chatbots Are Not People: Designed-In Dangers of Human-Like AI Systems—asserts that "conversational artificial intelligence (AI) is among the most striking technologies to emerge from the generative AI boom kicked off by the release of OpenAI's ChatGPT. It also has the potential to be among the most dangerous."

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      With 98% Support, SAG-AFTRA Video Game Performers Vote to Authorize a Strike

      "The result of this vote shows our membership understands the existential nature of these negotiations," union president Fran Drescher said.

      Olivia Rosane
      Sep 26, 2023

      Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists video game performers voted 98.32% in favor of authorizing a strike Monday, a day before negotiations were set to resume with industry representatives.

      The voice and motion-capture performers want inflation-adjusted wages, improved workplace safety, and protection against the exploitative use of artificial intelligence. Similar concerns about AI drove the Writers Guild of America and the film and television actors represented by SAG-AFTRA out on strike earlier this year.

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      Mainstream Media Gives Congress an Unearned Redemption Arc on AI

      Many of those weighing in on AI regulation own stock in Big Tech companies and have a powerful incentive not to rein the technology in.

      Julianne Tveten
      Sep 12, 2023

      “Everyone Wants to Regulate AI. No One Can Agree How,” Wired (5/26/23) proclaimed earlier this year. The headline resembled one from The New Yorker (5/20/23) published just days prior, reading “Congress Really Wants to Regulate AI, but No One Seems to Know How.” Each reflected an increasingly common thesis within the corporate press: Policymakers would like to place guardrails on so-called artificial intelligence systems, but, given the technology’s novel and evolving nature, they’ll need time before they can take action—if they ever can at all.

      This narrative contains some kernels of truth; artificial intelligence can be complex and dynamic, and thus not always easily comprehensible to the layperson. But the suggestion of congressional helplessness minimizes the responsibility of lawmakers—ultimately excusing, rather than interrogating, regulatory inertia.

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