US government takes new steps to study AI risks, determine impact on workers

Last Update: May 24, 2023, 00:43 IST

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The White House will hold a listening session with employees to understand their experiences with employers’ use of automated technologies for surveillance.

The White House said Tuesday it would ask workers how their employers use artificial intelligence (AI) to monitor them, as it allocates federal investment in the technology, which is expected to change the nature of work.

The White House will hold a listening session with workers to understand their experiences with staff’s use of automated technologies for monitoring, monitoring and evaluation.

The call will include gig work experts, researchers and policy makers.

Millions of users have tried AI apps and tools that proponents say can make medical diagnoses, write screenplays, compose legal briefs and debug software, raising concerns about how Technology can lead to privacy violations, skewed employment decisions, and power scams and misinformation campaigns.

As part of its assessment of the technology, the administration will also announce new steps, including an updated roadmap for federal investment in AI research, a request for public input on AI risks and the Department of Education’s review of how AI affects A new report is included. Teaching, learning and research.

The listening session and the new measures follow a meeting President Joe Biden hosted this month with chief executives of top artificial intelligence companies, including Microsoft and Alphabet’s Google.

The meeting focused on the importance of companies being more transparent about their AI systems and evaluating the security of such products.

The White House has said that President Biden has also used and experimented with the technology.

Shortly after Biden announced his re-election bid, the Republican National Committee produced a video featuring a dystopian future during a second Biden term, created entirely with AI imagery.

Such political ads are expected to become more common with the spread of AI technology.

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