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Schiff lawyer told Justice Department it should investigate Pulte for probing mortgages of Trump opponents

Los Angeles Times

Things to Do in L.A. Tap to enable a layout that focuses on the article. Bill Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, speaks to reporters at the White House in July. Voice comes from the use of AI. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here . Bill Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, alleges that U.S. Sen. Adam Schiff and others President Trump has clashed with misrepresented facts in mortgage documents to secure favorable tax or loan terms.


Did artificial intelligence shape the 2024 US election?

Al Jazeera

Days after New Hampshire voters received a robocall with an artificially generated voice that resembled President Joe Biden's, the Federal Communications Commission banned the use of AI-generated voices in robocalls. The 2024 United States election would be the first to unfold amid wide public access to AI generators, which let people create images, audio and video – some for nefarious purposes. Institutions rushed to limit AI-enabled misdeeds. Sixteen states enacted legislation around AI's use in elections and campaigns; many of these states required disclaimers in synthetic media published close to an election. The Election Assistance Commission, a federal agency supporting election administrators, published an "AI toolkit" with tips election officials could use to communicate about elections in an age of fabricated information.



US bill proposes AI companies list what copyrighted materials they use

Engadget

"AI has the disruptive potential of changing our economy, our political system, and our day-to-day lives. We must balance the immense potential of AI with the crucial need for ethical guidelines and protections." said Congressman Schiff in a statement. He added that the bill "champions innovation while safeguarding the rights and contributions of creators, ensuring they are aware when their work contributes to AI training datasets. This is about respecting creativity in the age of AI and marrying technological progress with fairness." Organizations such as the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), SAG-AFTRA and WGA have shown support for the bill. They would also have to provide the same information retroactively for any existing tools and make updates if they considerably altered datasets.


New bill would force AI companies to reveal use of copyrighted art

The Guardian

The bill would need companies to file such documents at least 30 days before publicly debuting their AI tools, or face a financial penalty. Such datasets encompass billions of lines of text and images or millions of hours of music and movies. "AI has the disruptive potential of changing our economy, our political system, and our day-to-day lives. We must balance the immense potential of AI with the crucial need for ethical guidelines and protections," Schiff said in a statement. Schiff's bill, which was first reported by Billboard, has received the support of numerous entertainment industry organizations and unions, including the Recording Industry Association of America, Professional Photographers of America, Directors Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.


What the Doomsayers Get Wrong About Deepfakes

The New Yorker

With that sentence, written by the journalist Samantha Cole for the tech site Motherboard in December, 2017, a queasy new chapter in our cultural history opened. A programmer calling himself "deepfakes" told Cole that he'd used artificial intelligence to insert Gadot's face into a pornographic video. And he'd made others: clips altered to feature Aubrey Plaza, Scarlett Johansson, Maisie Williams, and Taylor Swift. Porn, as a Times headline once proclaimed, is the "low-slung engine of progress." It can be credited with the rapid spread of VCRs, cable, and the Internet--and with several important Web technologies.


Will AI end education as we know it? Economist predicts schools, teachers could become 'obsolete'

FOX News

With the surge in growth of artificial intelligence, fears over the new technology have experts weighing in on what impact it will have on U.S. education. One economist warned that the technology will eventually lead to the elimination of teaching. "One of the jobs that is likely to be eliminated by A.I. is teaching," Euro Pacific Asset Management chief economist Peter Schiff told FOX News Digital. "I think certainly for elementary school education K through 12. I think at the end of the day, schools will be obsolete. Palm Beach Atlantic University professor of communication and Supper Honors Program director Dr. Tom St. Antoine argued, however, the technology presents educators with a "really good opportunity." IVY LEAGUE UNIVERSITY UNVEILS PLAN TO TEACH STUDENTS WITH AI CHATBOTS THIS FALL: 'EVOLUTION' OF'TRADITION' "In colleges and universities, we've been sort of obsessed with A.I. technology because for a lot of people, it poses little challenges like plagiarism and it sort of devalues the ability to do original work.


Missing sub nears critical deadline, American detained in Russia learns appeal fate and more top headlines

FOX News

An undated photo shows tourist submersible belongs to OceanGate descents at a sea. Search and rescue operations continue by US Coast Guard in Boston after a tourist submarine bound for the Titanics wreckage site went missing off the southeastern coast of Canada. RACE AGAINST TIME - Missing sub nears critical deadline when oxygen was projected to run out. Continue reading … AMERICAN DETAINED - WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich's appeal denied by Russian court. 'BASELESS DISTORTIONS' - Adam Schiff censured by House for'false' allegations on Trump-Russia collusion.


U.S. Lawmakers Push For More Oversight Of Elon Musk's Neuralink

International Business Times

U.S. House Representatives Earl Francis Blumenauer and Adam Schiff want further U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scrutiny of Elon Musk's Neuralink following a Reuters report that outlined mistakes in the brain chip company's animal testing program, their offices said on Thursday. Reuters reported on Monday that the USDA's inspector general is investigating Neuralink for potential animal-welfare violations amid internal staff complaints that its animal testing is being rushed, causing needless suffering and deaths. Blumenauer and Schiff, two Democrats who are members of the Congressional Animal Protection Caucus, wrote in a draft letter they will send to the USDA that "the treatment of the animals described in these complaints seems to indicate a distressing lack of oversight." "We are very concerned that this may be another example of high-profile cases of animal cruelty involving USDA-inspected facilities, referenced in previous letters to your agency, where there has not been adequate action from USDA," the lawmakers said in a letter addressed to USDA secretary Thomas Vilsack and Kevin Shea, who oversees the agency's inspection service. Neuralink executives did not immediately respond to requests for comment.


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AAAI Conferences

Bounded-memory computability continues to be in the focus of those areas of AI and databases that deal with feasible computations over streams be it feasible arithmetical calculations on low-level streams or feasible query answering for declaratively specified queries on relational data streams or even feasible query answering for high-level queries on streams w.r.t. a set of constraints in an ontology such as in the paradigm of Ontology-Based Data Access (OBDA). In classical OBDA, a high-level query is answered by transforming it into a query on data source level. The transformation requires a rewriting step, where knowledge from an ontology is incorporated into the query, followed by an unfolding step with respect to a set of mappings. Given an OBDA setting it is very difficult to decide, whether and how a query can be answered efficiently. In particular it is difficult to decide whether a query can be answered in bounded memory, i.e., in constant space w.r.t. an infinitely growing prefix of a data stream.