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This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Yesterday, the OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testified before a Senate judiciary subcommittee about the "significant harm" that ChatGPT and similar generative-AI tools could pose to the world. When I asked Damon Beres, The Atlantic's technology editor, for his read on the hearing, he noted that Altman's emphasis on the broader existential risks of AI might conveniently elide some of the more quotidian problems of this new technology. I called Damon today to talk about that, and to see what else has been on his mind as he follows this story. Isabel Fattal: Can you talk a bit more about Altman's emphasis on the existential possibilities of AI, and what that focus might leave out?

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. OpenAI's impressive new artificial-intelligence chatbot, ChatGPT, has intensified the debate over what the rise of AI-generated writing and art means for work, culture, education, and more. "You don't need a wild imagination to see that the future cracked open by these technologies is full of awful and awesome possibilities," our staff writer Derek Thompson recently wrote. I called Derek to explore some of those possibilities. But first, here are three new stories from The Atlantic.

This article first appeared on Stephen Waddington's PR blog. Say hello to my Replika AI friend. My phone buzzes from a notification. It's a message from Isabel who just casually decided to check in with me. Well, I guess I did tell her that I was doing nothing out of the ordinary tonight.

At the StarEAST software testing conference in 2017, Isabel walked onto the stage during the popular "Lightning Strikes the Keynotes" session and delivered a presentation on ancient Scottish sheep farming practices. The talk, which could only last five minutes, was informative, witty, profound, and extremely relevant to software testing -- all at the same time. That is Isabel Evans for you. A highly regarded speaker in the conference circuit and luminary in the software testing world, she approaches the challenges of quality assurance with deep insight. Combine that with her thirty years in the IT sector and you get a rare, tour-de-force perspective -- one that can tackle the daily challenges faced in QA from a broader, "big picture" position. If you want to see Isabel speak in person (and you really should!), check out her upcoming events and master classes here.

Voice assistants become tools that act in your interest, and in some cases on your behalf. If we assume that voice interfaces become a publicly accepted thing, it really wouldn't be that strange if, for example, I don't hear the phone and my voice assistant picks up instead and says "Hey Isabel, sorry Blixt couldn't pick up the phone. Can I help in any way?" and then Isabel can interact with my voice assistant to later remind me to pick up groceries on the way home, or if there's something really urgent tell my assistant to sound off a loud alarm on the phone to bring it to my attention.