If it's Friday deeply unsettling, mind-blowing, positively gripping.

That's how experts are describing the latest development in artificial intelligence.

As lawmakers and regulators confront an explosively new powerful and potentially dangerous technology.

Plus, NBC's exclusive sit down with Vice President Harris from Munich as world leaders

gather amid new calls for more and faster aid to Ukraine ahead of the one-year anniversary

of the war against Russia.

And Clash of Titans, new polling shows former President Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis

dominating the Republican

primary field one year until voters cast their first ballots for president.

Happy Friday. Welcome to Meet the Press Now. I'm Chuck Todd reporting from Washington.

What have I told you about an incredibly powerful, untested new technology has just been unleashed on society,

and lawmakers in Washington have no idea what to do about it.

Well, earlier this week, we brought you the story of how members of Congress are struggling to wrap their arms around the seemingly limitless potential

and potential peril of artificial intelligence.

Today, that story was taken an unexpected twist.

After New York Times technology columnist Kevin Ruse wrote about

what he calls the strangest encounter with a piece of technology he's ever experienced.

It was a two-hour interaction with a new AI-powered search engine from Microsoft's Bing.

That search engine, which is currently not available to the public at large, trust me, I tried,

but was provided to some people like Roos to beta test. It's powered by the same tech that

exploded onto the scene at the end of last year with the arrival of OpenAI's chatbot,

chat gpt. That chatbot has become the fastest growing application in history, while sparking something

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