What Next TBD: Washington vs. A.I.

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🗓️ 28 July 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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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 If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Amicus—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	There are days when you're hungry for McDonald's.
0:03.0	Then there are days when you're Big Arch hungry for McDonald's.
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0:30.5	Three or four years ago, Congressman Don Byer started to get curious about artificial intelligence.
0:39.9	I ran across a Coursera course from Stanford on AI. I thought, this would be great. I'll do this. And the first three weeks were wonderful. And I was really impressed with just the math and even the geometry of discovering
0:48.1	new things from data. And then I took the first exam and got a zero.
0:58.7	He tried to teach himself linear algebra, but that wasn't working out either.
0:59.9	So he gave up.
1:04.0	Beyer is a Democrat who represents Virginia's 8th district.
1:08.2	That's Arlington, Alexandria, a lot of the D.C. burbs.
1:11.1	Then, about a year and a half ago,
1:13.6	he went to visit George Mason University.
1:17.4	It's in his district, to see its new innovation lab.
1:19.7	And I said, this is cool.
1:21.3	Can I take a course here?
1:24.8	And they looked at me funny and said, well, we'll check.
1:29.1	Anyway, they let me in at that point as a 71-year-old.
1:34.9	So now I'm in my fifth course with another probably 11 courses before my artificial intelligence master's degree.
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