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Europe’s world-leading AI rules face do-or-die moment

Mon, Dec 4, 2023 at 12:02 pm

( ) -q 29– UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “Google’s Bard chatbot.”

Hailed as a world first, European Union artificial intelligence rules are facing a make-or-break moment.

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TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. Big tech companies are lobbying against what they see as overregulation that stifles innovation. European lawmakers, meanwhile, want added safeguards for the cutting-edge AI systems those companies are developing.

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VERBATIM: Negotiators will meet to hammer out the draft’s final details this week. However, the talks have been complicated by the sudden rise of generative AI. First suggested in 2019, the AI Act was expected to be the world’s first such comprehensive regulations. But the process has been bogged down by a last-minute battle over how to govern systems that underpin general purpose AI services like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard chatbot.

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Biden’s job approval hovers at 40 percent – RealClearPolitics

Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 7:05 am

President Biden continues to draw low job approval numbers. According to the RealClearPolitics average of polls, 40 percent of Americans approve of Joe Biden’s job performance while nearly 56 percent disapprove. Recent public opinion surveys continue to show low approval ratings fueled by unhappiness over the president’s handling of the economy. With only 40 percent approval, Mr. Biden trails Donald Trump, Barack Obama, and George W. Bush at the same point in their first term in office.

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FBI Director Wray To Testify Before Senate Judiciary Committee

Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 5:00 am

Director Christopher Wray will testify this morning as the Senate Judiciary Committee holds it annual oversight hearing for the FBI. Committee chairman Senator Dick Durbin plans to seek more information on everything from the FBI’s handling of FISA warrants , to border security and children’s online safety. This year’s hearing may also include strong olitical overtones. There’s growing concern among Republicans the FBI has become a tool in the Democrat’s arsenal to attack President Biden’s political adversaries, most notably former President Trump.

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Bernie Bennett SRN News U.S. House correspondent

Michael Harrington SRN News religion desk editor

A group of 17 Republican attorneys general take on the Biden administration

Fri, Dec 1, 2023 at 9:10 am

A group of 17 Republican attorneys general take on the Biden administration

VERBATIM: They have sent a letter to Washington, decrying a proposed rule that would require any foster child who identifies as LGBT be placed ONLY with parents who promise to affirm their lifestyle and “provide services necessary for their health and well-being”. That would include sex-change operations. The attorneys general point out that some states are banning those kinds of surgeries on children because of their devastating consequences. Michael Harrington, SRN News.

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