WASHINGTON – The Senate leader who’s famous for using a flip phone is now hard at work trying to figure out how to regulate some of the most advanced technology known to man.
To show how ChatGPT works, News Washington reporter Jerry Zremski recently had a five-minute conversation with the new chatbot. Here are edited excerpts.
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, mindful of the vast changes – and dangers – lurking in the coming era of artificial intelligence, wants Congress to get a handle on the technology to both make the most of it and, when necessary, to rein it in. That’s why he’s been meeting for months with tech leaders like Tesla CEO Elon Musk to develop a regulatory framework to guide a burgeoning field that’s big at the University at Buffalo and that has the potential to remake society.
“You cannot deny that the age of AI is here, and it’s transformative,” Schumer, a New York Democrat, said in a recent interview. “It could be more transformative than almost anything that’s come along in centuries, even. And it’s going to revolutionize science and medicine and technology and almost everything else.”
But Schumer – like many scientists and some of his fellow lawmakers – also acknowledged that there is risk in a technology that can…
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