What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Washington vs. A.I.
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🗓️ 28 July 2023
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Summary
At a White House summit late last week, some of the biggest names in tech - including Meta, Google and OpenAI - signed “voluntary” commitments to safeguard artificial intelligence. In Congress, Senate Leader Chuck Schumer recently introduced a “legislative framework” for A.I. law… but as they debate and deliberate, the A.I. train continues to move full steam ahead. It’s clear the government’s paying attention, but can they keep up with the technology?
Guest: Makena Kelly, politics reporter at The Verge
Don Beyer, U.S. representative for Virginia's 8th congressional district
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| 0:30.0 | Three or four years ago, Congressman Don Byer started to get curious about artificial intelligence. |
| 0:40.2 | I ran across a Coursera course from Stanford on AI, and I thought, this will be great. |
| 0:46.6 | I'll do this. |
| 0:48.2 | And the first three weeks were wonderful, and I was really impressed with just the math |
| 0:54.0 | and even the geometry of discovering new things from data. |
| 0:59.5 | Then I took the first exam and got a zero. |
| 1:03.7 | He tried to teach himself linear algebra, but that wasn't working out either. |
| 1:08.3 | So he gave up. |
| 1:09.7 | Byer is a Democrat who represents Virginia's eighth district. |
| 1:13.5 | That's Arlington, Alexandria, a lot of the DC Burbs. |
| 1:18.3 | Then, about a year and a half ago, he went to visit George Mason University. |
| 1:23.2 | It's in his district to see its new innovation lab. |
| 1:27.2 | And I said, this is cool. |
| 1:29.3 | Can I take a course here? |
| 1:30.8 | And they looked at me funny and said, well, we'll check. |
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