Lawmakers Want To Be Proactive On Artificial Intelligence Regulation

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🗓️ 17 May 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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OpenAI head Sam Altman appeared before a Senate panel this week to talk about his ChatGPT product and the future of artificial intelligence. Lawmakers acknowledge the broad upsides of the fast-moving technology but hope to craft regulation in order to blunt the social and civic drawbacks that arrived alongside past tech breakthroughs.

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0:28.6	I'm Deepa Shiverham.
0:29.7	I cover politics.
0:30.8	I'm Claudia Gideysa.
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0:36.2	Hey Shannon.
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0:37.7	So Congress is racing to try and catch up to exploding advances in AI,
0:42.8	as you can tell, this podcast is also trying to do some catching up.
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