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AI IN POLITICS: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UNIMAGINABLE
“I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think
things over.” — HAL 9000
affect the flow of accurate infor- mation — the same details AI programs like ChatGPT rely on as machine-learning systems to provide their answers for users. Among speakers opening for
Altman at the event at the Abu Dhabi Global Market was An- drew Jackson, the CEO of the Inception Institute of AI, which is described as a company of G42.
G42 is tied to Abu Dhabi’s
powerful national security ad- viser and deputy ruler Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed Al Nahyan. G42’s CEO is Peng Xiao, who for years ran Pegasus, a subsid- iary of DarkMatter, an Emirati security firm under scrutiny for hiring former CIA and NSA staffers, as well as others from Israel. G42 also owns a video and voice calling app that re- portedly was a spying tool for the Emirati government. In his remarks, Jackson de-
scribed himself as representing “the Abu Dhabi and UAE AI ecosystem.” “We are a political power-
house and we will be central to AI regulation globally,” he said.
AI EXPOSING DEEPFAKES
BY DIANE BARTZ M
icrosoft President Brad Smith says that his biggest concern
around artificial intelligence is deep- fakes, realistic looking but false con- tent, reports Reuters. In a May 25 speech in Washington
aimed at addressing the issue of how best to regulate AI, which went from wonky to widespread with the arrival of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Smith called for steps to ensure that people know when a photo or video is real and when it is generated by AI, potential- ly for nefarious purposes. “We’re going have to address the
issues around deepfakes. We’re going to have to address in particular what we worry about most foreign cyber influence operations, the kinds of ac- tivities that are already taking place by the Russian government, the Chi- nese, the Iranians,” he said. “We need to take steps to protect
against the alteration of legitimate content with an intent to deceive or defraud people through the use of AI.”
Smith also called for licensing for
the most critical forms of AI with “ob- ligations to protect security, physical security, cybersecurity, national se- curity.” “We will need a new generation of
export controls, at least the evolution of the export controls we have, to en- sure that these models are not stolen or not used in ways that would violate the country’s export control require- ments,” he said. For weeks, lawmakers in Washing-
ton have struggled with what laws to pass to control AI, even as companies large and small have raced to bring increasingly versatile AI to market. Smith also argued in the speech,
and in a subsequent blog post, that people needed to be held account- able for any problems caused by AI, and he urged lawmakers to ensure that safety brakes be put on AI used to control the electric grid, water sup- ply, and other critical infrastructure so that humans remain in control. He urged use of a “Know Your Customer”-style system for develop- ers of powerful AI models to keep tabs on how their technology is used and to inform the public of what con- tent AI is creating so they can iden- tify faked videos. Some proposals being considered
on Capitol Hill would focus on AI that may put people’s lives or liveli- hoods at risk, like in medicine and finance. Others are pushing for rules to ensure AI is not used to discrimi- nate or violate civil rights.
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