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On the recordJuly 25, 2024
I want to focus on engineered intelligence. There are two groups of engineers who are in a race that they don't know about. One are the bioengineers creating new DNA, perhaps a new species. By the end of this century, who says they won't have a thousand-pound mammal with two 80-pound brains, which will probably beat my grandkids on the law school admissions test. We all know even more about computer engineers, and we know the upside of artificial intelligence. We heard our good friend, Jennifer Wexton, address this House, thanks in part to artificial intelligence. We are not going to stop artificial intelligence. Hopefully, we will make sure that it does not somehow lead to bias and discrimination, but we do have to make sure of one thing, that artificial intelligence remains a tool, not a creature. We need to do the research so that we have the capacity to monitor for and to prevent artificial intelligence from becoming self-aware, developing volition, developing ambition, and developing a survival instinct. I know it sounds like science fiction, but if somebody describes for you the future, and it seems like they are describing a science fiction movie, they might be right in their description of the future. If somebody describes the future, and it doesn't look like a science fiction movie, you know they are wrong. Our kids and our grandkids are going to be living in a science fiction movie. We just don't know which one.…
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Wendy Sherman
Democratic · District of Columbia

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