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Joe Maring/Digital Trends Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has set up a series of briefings aimed at educating senators about artificial intelligence (AI), insisting that his colleagues must “deepen our expertise in this pressing topic.” The move comes as U.S. lawmakers consider how to regulate the new wave of fast-evolving AI technology behind powerful chatbot tools such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard. With some senators perhaps struggling to get to grips with the new tools and to fully understand the…

A new poll of more than 1,200 registered voters provides some of the clearest data yet illustrating the public’s desire to reign in AI. Chat GPT-4 Worth the Upgrade? | Future Tech54% of registered US voters surveyed in a new poll conducted by The Tech Oversight Project agreed Congress should take “swift action to regulate AI” in order to promote privacy and safety and ensure the tech provides the “maximum benefit to society.” Republicans and Democrats expressed nearly identical support for reining in AI, a rare sign of…

WASHINGTON—Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the U.S. government could become unable to pay all of its bills on time as soon as June 1 if Congress doesn’t first raise the debt limit. The new forecast released Monday gives Republicans and Democrats a matter of weeks to reach an agreement on raising the nation’s roughly $31.4 trillion borrowing limit.  WASHINGTON—Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the U.S. government could become unable to pay all of its bills on time as soon as June…

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) met for more than an hour in his Capitol Hill office with tech magnate Elon Musk this week to discuss the future of artificial intelligence (AI), a sign of a possible thaw in relations between Democrats and one of the nation’s most powerful CEOs.   Relations between Musk and Democratic lawmakers had soured steadily since Musk announced his plans to buy Twitter last year. Many Democrats were outraged over his decision to cut content moderators from the company and…

Last year, I wrote about how West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin was acting like a bad boyfriend to the Democratic party. The man was stringing his colleagues along for months and holding climate legislation in limbo. I ate my words just a couple of weeks later when Manchin worked with Democratic leadership to revive the corpse of the Build Back Better Act. In helping to pass the U.S.’s most aggressive (and only) climate legislation to date, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), Manchin helped make climate history. Now, it…

Artificial intelligence is the next technology that could get support — and new guardrails — from the US government, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said.Senate Democrats are accelerating discussions about how to respond to the surge in AI technology in a way that replicates a bipartisan act meant support US semiconductor manufacturing, which was signed into law last year. Schumer said that could be the model for assuring US supremacy in AI and countering Chinese advancements. “Like we helped move the nation forward…

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.How Can You Be a Steward of Good Tech in 2023? | Gizmodo InterviewAfter a nearly two-decades-long permitting process, a 732-mile transmission line capable of sending power from what will be the largest onshore wind farm in North America to Western states got a green light last week.The Bureau of Land Management, or BLM gave final approval to begin building the $3 billion TransWest Express high-voltage transmission line. The…

BeReal, a popular new spontaneous image-sharing app designed to show life, “without filters,” had the highest proportion of child users exposed to sexual content of any major social media app, according to a new survey shared with Gizmodo. Larger apps like YouTube and TikTok had more overall incidents of exposure to sexual content, but users on BeReal were the most likely to actually interact with the content, the survey found. Similarly, the survey of parents showed BeReal had the highest proportion of child users who…

Donald Trump’s account was recently unbanned on Twitter, though he’s been restricted in posting due to an ongoing deal with his company Truth Social.Image: kovop (Shutterstock)Twitter has seen its share of political bot campaigns, but since spring 2022 there’s been a long-running, highly prolific bot campaign proliferating through Twitter to support former President Donald Trump. Even if you first thought it’s just the Russians again, a new report suggests these fake accounts were created a little closer to home.A report…

WASHINGTON—President Biden met Tuesday with Democratic congressional leaders as the party tries to project a united front on the economy and the coming fight over lifting the debt ceiling.At the start of the meeting, Mr. Biden warned that newly empowered House Republican lawmakers could cut Social Security and Medicare, and he criticized a proposal pushed by some in the GOP to impose a national sales tax. “I have no intention of letting the Republicans wreck our economy,” he said.…