The U.S. Congress is not usually what we think of as the leading edge of innovation. In fact, the legislative body's collective lack of technological proficiency is often pointed to as a liability when it comes to regulating new tech. But lawmakers in Washington and around the country have increasingly been turning to software to help them write and analyze legislation. Mohar Chatterjee is a computational journalist at Politico who recently covered the issue, and she says there's pretty much just one program lawmakers all use: LegisPro. Marketplace's Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to Chatterjee about what this process looks like in practice.

Artificial intelligence judging has become a reality. Last month, a Colombian judge used ChatGPT to generate part of his judicial opinion. Estonia has piloted a robot judge, and the United States. These recent events have sparked a debate about "unethical" uses of A.I. in the judiciary. As the technological hurdles to A.I.-judging recede, the remaining barriers are ones of law and ethics.

This report covers results from the 15th "Future of the Internet" canvassing that Pew Research Center and Elon University's Imagining the Internet Center have conducted together to gather expert views about important digital issues. This is a nonscientific canvassing based on a nonrandom sample; this broad array of opinions about the potential influence of current trends may lead between 2022 and 2035 represents only the points of view of the individuals who responded to the queries. Pew Research Center and Elon's Imagining the Internet Center sampled from a database of experts to canvass from a wide range of fields, inviting entrepreneurs, professionals and policy people based in government bodies, nonprofits and foundations, technology businesses and think tanks, as well as interested academics and technology innovators. The predictions reported here came in response to a set of questions in an online canvassing conducted between June 29 and Aug. 8, 2022. In all, 540 technology innovators and developers, business and policy leaders, researchers and activists responded in some way to the question covered in this report. More on the methodology underlying this canvassing and the participants can be found in the section titled "About this canvassing of experts." Advances in the internet, artificial intelligence (AI) and online applications have allowed humans to vastly expand their capabilities and increase their capacity to tackle complex problems. These advances have given people the ability to instantly access and share knowledge and amplified their personal and collective power to understand and shape their surroundings. Today there is general agreement that smart machines, bots and systems powered mostly by machine learning and artificial intelligence will quickly increase in speed and sophistication between now and 2035.

Elon Musk is facing yet another lawsuit as shareholders of Tesla accuse the chief executive and his company of overstating the effectiveness and safety of their electric vehicles' autopilot and full self-driving technologies. Shareholders have alleged in the proposed class action lawsuit that Tesla defrauded them over four years with false and misleading statements that concealed how its technologies – suspected as a possible cause of multiple fatal crashes – "created a serious risk of accident and injury". The case was filed Monday in a San Francisco federal court. The case centers on the financial fallout of Tesla's failed autopilot features, citing when the company's share price fell after reports that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Securities and Exchange Commission had begun investigating the technologies. The share price also fell 5.7% on 16 February 2023 after NHTSA forced a recall of more than 362,000 Tesla vehicles equipped with full self-driving beta software because they could be unsafe around intersections. "As a result of defendants' wrongful acts and omissions, and the precipitous decline in the market value of the company's common stock, plaintiff and other class members have suffered significant losses and damages," the complaint said.

In recent years, Large Language Models (LLMs) have gained significant popularity due to their ability to generate human-like text and their potential applications in various fields, such as Software Engineering. LLMs for Code are commonly trained on large unsanitized corpora of source code scraped from the Internet. The content of these datasets is memorized and emitted by the models, often in a verbatim manner. In this work, we will discuss the security, privacy, and licensing implications of memorization. We argue why the use of copyleft code to train LLMs is a legal and ethical dilemma. Finally, we provide four actionable recommendations to address this issue.

This is Work in Progress, a newsletter by Derek Thompson about work, technology, and how to solve some of America's biggest problems. Artificial-intelligence news in 2023 has moved so quickly that I'm experiencing a kind of narrative vertigo. Just weeks ago, ChatGPT seemed like a minor miracle. Soon, however, enthusiasm curdled into skepticism--maybe it was just a fancy auto-complete tool that couldn't stop making stuff up. In early February, Microsoft's announcement that it had acquired OpenAI sent the stock soaring by $100 billion.

In today's news cycle, it is difficult to miss all the fuss about AI, or more specifically, ChatGPT. So many differing opinions on the matter can make it hard to decipher what the future looks like. Few people think AI is a gimmick, but not many know the possibilities AI provides to us. According to Statista The immense number of users that flocked to ChatGPT is a show of its prowess and the curiosity that AI can instill into people. Whether an individual considers AI good or bad, the truth is it is here to stay, and will continue to evolve at an unprecedented rate.

Every time a new application of AI is announced, I feel a short-lived rush of excitement -- followed soon after by a knot in my stomach. This is because I know the technology, more often than not, hasn't been designed with equity in mind. One system, ChatGPT, has reached 100 million unique users just two months after its launch. The text-based tool engages users in interactive, friendly, AI-generated exchanges with a chatbot that has been developed to speak authoritatively on any subject it's prompted to address. In an interview with Michael Barbaro on the The Daily podcast from the New York Times, tech reporter Kevin Roose described how an app similar to ChatGPT, Bing's AI chatbot, which also is built on OpenAI's GPT-3 language model, responded to his request for a suggestion on a side dish to accompany French onion soup for Valentine's Day dinner with his wife.

In the skies above Chula Vista, California, where the police department runs a drone program 10 hours a day, seven days a week, it's not uncommon to see an unmanned aerial vehicle darting across the sky. Chula Vista is one of a dozen departments in the US that operate what are called drone-as-first-responder programs, where drones are dispatched by pilots, who are listening to live 911 calls, and often arrive first at the scenes of accidents, emergencies, and crimes, cameras in tow. But many argue that police forces' adoption of drones is happening too quickly. The use of drones as surveillance tools and first responders is a fundamental shift in policing, one without a well-informed public debate around privacy regulations, tactics, and limits. There's also little evidence available of its efficacy, with scant proof that drone policing reduces crime.

Like so many cities before it, Phoenix went all out to host the Super Bowl earlier this month. Expecting about 1 million fans to come to town for the biggest American sporting event of the year, the city rolled out a fleet of self-driving electric vehicles to ferry visitors from the airport. Robots sifted through the trash to pull out anything that could be composted. There were less visible developments, too. In preparation for the game, the local authorities upgraded a network of cameras around the city's downtown--and have kept them running after the spectators have left.