Opinion as testimony. 

https://www.bespacific.com/oversight-of-a-i-rules-for-artificial-intelligence/

Oversight of A.I.: Rules for Artificial Intelligence

Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing. May 15, 20223 – Oversight of A.I.: Rules for Artificial Intelligence – Hearing video 

    • Witnesses – Samuel Altman, CEO OpenAI San Francisco, CA – Download Testimony:  “…OpenAI is a leading developer of large language models (LLMs) and other AI tools.  Fundamentally, the current generation of AI models are large-scale statistical prediction machines – when a model is given a person’s request, it tries to predict a likely response.  These models operate similarly to auto-complete functions on modern smartphones, email, or word processing software, but on a much larger and more complex scale.2  The model learns from reading or seeing data about the world, which improves its predictive abilities until it can perform tasks such as summarizing text, writing poetry, and crafting computer code.  Using variants of this technology, AI tools are also capable of learning statistical relationships between images and text descriptions and then generating new images based on natural language inputs…”

    • Christina Montgomery Chief Privacy & Trust Officer IBM Cortlandt Manor, NY – Download Testimony – “…IBM has strived for more than a century to bring powerful new technologies like artificial intelligence into the world responsibly, and with clear purpose.  We follow long-held principles of trust and transparency that make clear the role of AI is to augment, not replace, human expertise and judgement.  We were one of the first in our industry to establish an AI Ethics Board, which I co-chair, and whose experts work to ensure that our principles and commitments are upheld in our global business engagements… This period of focused public attention on AI is precisely the time to define and build the right guardrails to protect people and their interests.  It is my privilege to share with you IBM’s recommendations for those guardrails..”

    • Gary Marcus Professor Emeritus New York University Vancouver, BC, Canada – Download Testimony:  “…We all more or less agree on the values we would like for our AI systems to honor.  We want, for example, for our systems to to be transparent, to protect our privacy, to be free of bias, and above all else to be safe.  But current systems are not in line with these values.  Current systems are not transparent, they do not adequately protect our privacy, and they continue to perpetuate bias.  Even their makers don’t entirely understand how they work.  Most of all, we cannot remotely guarantee they are safe.

See also WSJ [free article] – ChatGPT’s Sam Altman Faces Senate Panel Examining Artificial Intelligence/a>. Congress looks to impose AI regulations, if it can reach consensus 

We don’t have any?  Really?  

https://news.usni.org/2023/05/16/defense-primer-u-s-policy-on-lethal-autonomous-weapon-systems-2 

Defense Primer: U.S. Policy on Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems

The following is the May. 15, 2023, Congressional Research Service report, Defense Primer: U.S. Policy on Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems.

…   Contrary to a number of news reports, U.S. policy does not prohibit the development or employment of LAWS.  Although the United States does not currently have LAWS in its inventory, some senior military and defense leaders have stated that the United States may be compelled to develop LAWS in the future if U.S. competitors choose to do so.  At the same time, a growing number of states and nongovernmental organizations are appealing to the international community for regulation of or a ban on LAWS due to ethical concerns.

Resource? 

https://fpf.org/blog/new-fpf-report-unlocking-data-protection-by-design-and-by-default-lessons-from-the-enforcement-of-article-25-gdpr/ 

NEW FPF REPORT: UNLOCKING DATA PROTECTION BY DESIGN AND BY DEFAULT: LESSONS FROM THE ENFORCEMENT OF ARTICLE 25 GDPR

On May 17, the Future of Privacy Forum launched a new report on enforcement of the EU’s GDPR Data Protection by Design and by Default (DPbD&bD) obligations, which are outlined in GDPR Article 25.  The Report draws from more than 92 data protection authority (DPA) cases, court rulings, and guidelines from 16 EEA member states, the UK, and the EDPB to provide an analysis of enforcement trends regarding Article 25.  The identified cases cover a spectrum of personal data processing activities, from accessing online services and platforms, to tools for educational and employment contexts, to “emotion recognition” AI systems for customer support, and many more.

Could be amusing to play with… 

https://www.bespacific.com/law-firm-newswire-launches-free-ai-press-release-writer-for-lawyers/

Law Firm Newswire Launches Free AI Press Release Writer for Lawyers

May 15, 2023 (Law Firm Newswire via COMTEX)  “Law Firm Newswire (LFN) has developed an AI press release writer that can help lawyers and law firms write quality press releases.  AI learns by example; thus LFN’s engineers used world-class legal journalism, court opinions, and some of LFN’s best-performing press releases as a foundation to create perfect outputs for lawyers.  Knowing How to Write for Lawyers Law firm press releases are different than media announcements from other industries.  Thus, plugging in a “write a press release for XYZ” prompt into OpenAI’s ChaptGPT or Google Bard alone would result in basic outputs that don’t have the guidance needed to write an accurate press release about legal complexities.  When a court authorizes a settlement or a verdict is handed down from a jury, a marketing professional can drop that ruling into the AI writer and make it a press release.  This saves a lot of time because the AI press release writer can translate the legal wording of the document into a public-friendly concise news announcement for the law firm.  This AI writer can also listen to input to write a better press release.  A marketing director or attorney can chat with the writer, telling it to come up with a more compelling title or to include additional case information or information about any lawyers they want to be featured in the press release.  With the ability to prompt the AI writer with new information and ask for rewrites, the press release will come out just the way you want it.  LFN’s AI writer will allow law firms to send out announcements about lawsuits and settlements instantly.  In one test case, one of LFN’s agency accounts took an approved class action settlement document and using the AI writer was able to have the press release to their client for approval within 30 minutes.  Lawyers can rely on the AI writer to produce high-quality outputs that accurately represent their news and their successes.  Earlier this year, Law Firm Newswire started testing AI models on which to build their writer.  The first version which was quietly released with the new platform’s soft launch in April was using OpenAI’s Davinci model.  But the new interactive writer is built on ChaptGPT 3.5.”

    • Anyone can use the AI press release writer by creating a free account at https://lawfirmnewswire.com/join/.

    • Documentation on using the AI writer is available at https://lawfirmnewswire.com/learn/using-ai-writer/.