A Congressman Goes to A.I. School + How to Ban TikTok

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The New York Times

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🗓️ 10 March 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Representative Don Beyer thinks artificial intelligence is “the most amazing technology since fire.” So what does it mean that most of Congress seems not to understand it? Then our colleague David McCabe discusses a bill that could dramatically expand the Biden administration’s power to ban TikTok. Plus: what can the video game character Waluigi tell us about A.I. chatbots gone rogue?

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0:00.0	Let me tell you a little something about the social networks in this country.
0:03.3	They are in a shambles.
0:04.8	This week, Twitter went down.
0:07.4	We reported that it was essentially because they designed one very important project to
0:10.8	a single engineer, something broke.
0:12.8	So no one could load links or images on the site for a few hours.
0:17.1	I thought, well, this would obviously be something very fun to talk about on Mastodon, which
0:21.1	is what I'm using instead of Twitter.
0:23.2	And I went to Mastodon.
0:24.2	And do you know what was happening on Mastodon?
0:25.2	What was happening?
0:26.2	They were undergoing a massive heat off.
0:28.2	And so I had nothing to do.
0:29.9	And so I thought, you know, this is the moment and I'm going to get on TikTok and I'm going
0:33.3	to make a day in TikTok.
0:34.3	Wow.
0:35.3	Yeah.
0:36.3	What was your TikTok?
0:37.3	Well, it was just me saying, please somebody fix the social networks in this country.
0:41.5	We used to have proper social network.
0:42.9	We used to be able to just go on and post things and that has been taken away from us.
0:46.6	Wow.
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