AI RIGHTS AND WRONGS COMMENTARY
Government Not Equipped to Rein In AI
BY DENNIS KNEALE
their fears so openly regarding a new technology. Artificial Intelligence (AI) could
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get too smart for our own good, and government is ill-equipped to contain this risk, effectively or at all. So, in the meantime, it is up to
us, personally: users (and buyers!) beware. Many painfully know AI chatbots
can get things wrong and show bla- tant political bias, a product of gar- bage in, garbage out. We will be hearing a lot about
these dangers, and government offi- cials, politicians, and academics will blame it all on Big Tech, the purvey- ors of AI, and the tech itself. But if you dive into the AI depths
and deploy it at work or in your life and it goes awry, it is no one’s fault but your own. This stuff is far from ready for
prime time. Government efforts to regulate AI
already are behind the technology’s rapid advances. At the least, Congress ought to ban
new AI tech from government sys- tems, the electricity grid, nuclear mis- sile silos, and other mission-critical infrastructure, as we discussed recent- ly on Newsmax’s Wake Up America. There used to be this obstacle
to technology adoption which the IBMers of old called the FUD factor. Fear, uncertainty, and doubt, but FUD has faded. We the people now wel- come all tech no matter what the con-
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n my many years of covering business and technology, never have I heard so many scientists and tech executives express
sequences, and we blithely accept its imperfections, corrections, and revi- sion updates. One new survey, from a firm called
Tidio, shows one in six people say they would let ChatGPT write their wedding speech. Some 70% of respon- dents believe ChatGPT, from Micro- soft-funded OpenAI, will replace Google in search; 86% say it could be used to control the population. Yet, 60% of the people surveyed say
they want ChatGPT to be allowed to give them medical advice. So, ChatGPT might become my dic-
tator, but please, sir, give me lifesaving medical advice, too. Are we high? And it turns out 58%
of the people surveyed by Tidio were millennials — now the biggest part of the workforce, born from the early 1980s to the late 1990s — and they say, “Bring it on!” Do so at your own peril. The ChatGPT AI platform, backed
by Microsoft-controlled OpenAI, al- ready shows signs of programmed-in liberal bias, if only because it knows only what it reads in the mostly liberal media outlets it peruses. When I asked ChatGPT-3 to tell me
why President Joe Biden is the worst president in history, it told me it is unable to answer a question like that, and it said Biden has been in office only a limited time. And, gee, how do you define
“worst”? How do you define “limited”? Asked the same question about President Donald Trump, ChatGPT-3 instantly listed five reasons. But that might be just a matter of opinion — so, I tested ChatGPT-3 on
facts that I know better than anyone else: I asked ChatGPT to write a biog- raphy entry for me. It came back with a 330-word bio — and a total of 20 fact errors. And not just nitpicky stuff. We are
talking scandalous stuff about me per- sonally, all of it false: ChatGPT-3 got my birthday wrong, and had me five years older than I am — and that is downright offensive! It had me born in New York and
raised in Detroit! Wrong! Miami! And the wrong college (I went to U.
Florida, not U. Michigan), and wrong degree, plus it was wrong by nine years on when I started at CNBC, and wrong in saying I was a strategist at The New York Times and
TheStreet.com. This writer has never worked for
either of them! ChatGPT-3 was wrong as well
about my having three kids (one). And get this, under the header “con- troversies,” my ChatGPT-3 bio cites a flap that never happened when I was an anchor at Fox Business; and says I took down a tweet in a clash over the #MeToo movement; and that CNN anchor Erin Burnett sued me for making false statements about her in a blog post when we both worked at CNBC. None of the above ever happened,
yet ChatGPT-3 made it all up and put it into my bio. AI researchers have a term for when an AI bot makes stuff up out of nowhere: “hallucination.” It’s beyond disturbing that this
happens often enough for the experts to have come up with a fancy term for this. Maybe this is why they call it artificial intelligence.
Dennis Kneale is a writer and media strategist in New York and host of the podcast What’s Bugging Me. Previously, he was an anchor at CNBC and Fox Business Network, after serving as a senior editor at The Wall Street Journal and managing editor of Forbes.
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