I think it’s a bit of a stretch, but it might be fun to try.
https://theconversation.com/how-ai-could-take-over-elections-and-undermine-democracy-206051
How AI could take over elections – and undermine democracy
Could organizations use artificial intelligence language models such as ChatGPT to induce voters to behave in specific ways?
Sen. Josh Hawley asked OpenAI CEO Sam Altman this question in a May 16, 2023, U.S. Senate hearing on artificial intelligence. Altman replied that he was indeed concerned that some people might use language models to manipulate, persuade and engage in one-on-one interactions with voters.
Perspective.
Utah starts crafting policies to regulate artificial intelligence
… "You can use a chatbot to personalize, especially these chatbots that are very human seeming, you can use that chatbot to personalize the customer experience to a point it’s indistinguishable for the person where it’s a person talking to them or a robot," he told the crowd.
Pelikan noted a "hype cycle" right now surrounding AI, pointing out that the technology has been used for years now but what has changed is the quality of it and responses that are more "human." But others warned of risks for misinformation, "deepfake" hoaxes and an over-reliance on the technology with a lack of human oversight.
"The machines are going to become a lot smarter and people are going to become a lot stupider," joked Barclay Burns, the CEO of GenerativeImpact.AI.
Perspective.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/06/open-source-llms.html
Open-Source LLMs
In February, Meta released its large language model: LLaMA. Unlike OpenAI and its ChatGPT, Meta didn’t just give the world a chat window to play with. Instead, it released the code into the open-source community, and shortly thereafter the model itself was leaked. Researchers and programmers immediately started modifying it, improving it, and getting it to do things no one else anticipated. And their results have been immediate, innovative, and an indication of how the future of this technology is going to play out. Training speeds have hugely increased, and the size of the models themselves has shrunk to the point that you can create and run them on a laptop. The world of AI research has dramatically changed.
This development hasn’t made the same splash as other corporate announcements, but its effects will be much greater.
… This essay was written with Jim Waldo, and previously appeared on Slate.com.
Perspective. Hey! It can’t hurt.
Tool or Terror? Looking to Literature to Better Understand Artificial Intelligence
“The Algorithm knew the timing of our periods. It knew when and if we’d marry,” begins “The Future Is a Click Away,” a curious short story in Allegra Hyde’s new collection, The Last Catastrophe. “It knew how we’d die… It knew what seemed unknowable: the hidden chambers of our hearts. When it sent us tampons in the mail, we took them. We paid.”
In an arrestingly quirky first paragraph, Hyde sets up the central conceit of the story: that in an unspecified future, humans live in a world where something only known as “the Algorithm” sends them packages—often twice daily—that they have not ordered, unlike, say, on Amazon, but that seem to uncannily reflect their needs (as well as their budgets, for the Algorithm usually only sends packages that each person can afford). It’s a playful satire of artificial intelligence and corporate surveillance into our lives—one that seems funny until it isn’t, for it hits all too close to home.
Resources.
https://mashable.com/uk/deals/free-artificial-intelligence-chatgpt-courses
10 of the best artificial intelligence courses you can take online for free
… These are the best online artificial intelligence courses you can take for free as of June 3: