{"id":1941880,"date":"2023-06-01T10:16:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T14:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/italian-senator-reads-ai-generated-speech-in-parliament-to-stir-debate\/"},"modified":"2023-06-01T10:17:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T14:17:40","slug":"italian-senator-reads-ai-generated-speech-in-parliament-to-stir-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/italian-senator-reads-ai-generated-speech-in-parliament-to-stir-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian senator sparks debate by reading AI-generated speech in parliament."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fitalian-senator-reads-ai-generated-speech-in-parliament-to-stir-debate%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1941880&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Italian Senator Reads AI-Generated Speech in Parliament<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>ROME (Reuters) \u2013 An Italian senator has surprised his colleagues by reading out in parliament a speech drafted by a chatbot, saying afterwards that he pulled the stunt to stir \u201ca serious debate\u201d on risks and opportunities posed by artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Centrist senator Marco Lombardo asked his colleagues, &#8220;How many of us today are able to distinguish between a text produced by human intelligence and a stream of thoughts \u2026 produced by an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-lawmaker-wants-to-ban-minors-from-social-media\/\" title=\"Texas Lawmaker Wants to Ban Minors From Social Media\">artificial intelligence algorithm<\/a>?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lombardo&#8217;s speech, on the subject of various bilateral deals with Switzerland, was produced by Microsoft Corp-backed OpenAI\u2019s GPT-4 chatbot. His staff fed the necessary information into the software, which then produced the speech &#8220;instantaneously.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The leader of Lombardo\u2019s Azione party, Carlo Calenda, said on Twitter that what the senator said in the chamber was \u201cimpeccable\u201d, but added: \u201cIt is not yet clear to me whether we are looking at progress or at a step back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lombardo called for a better understanding of AI technology in order to strike the correct balance between regulation and innovation. Italy has taken centre stage in recent months in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/italian-senator-reads-ai-generated-speech-in-parliament-to-stir-debate\/\" title=\"Italian senator sparks debate by reading AI-generated speech in parliament.\">worldwide regulation efforts<\/a> on AI, with the country\u2019s data protection authority temporarily banning ChatGPT and starting a probe over the application\u2019s suspected breach of privacy rules.<\/p>\n<h3>Other News:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>China postures against a timid Biden Administration.<\/li>\n<li>Mike Pence is planning to enter the 2024 presidential race next week.<\/li>\n<li>The White House announces another round of aid for Ukraine.<\/li>\n<li>If the House passes the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-clears-debt-ceiling-resolution-in-a-314-117-vote\/\" title=\"House approves debt ceiling resolution with 314-117 vote.\">debt ceiling bill today<\/a>, as Speaker McCarthy believes it will, the bill will then proceed to the Senate where it will require 60 votes before it can be sent to President Biden\u2019s desk.<\/li>\n<li>Apple Inc supplier Foxconn will start manufacturing iPhones in the southern state of Karnataka by April 2024, the state\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a human and one generated by a machine?\u201d asked the senator, who used the speech to call for greater regulation of AI.<\/p>\n<p>An Italian senator sparked a debate on the risks and opportunities of artificial intelligence by reading out a speech drafted by a chatbot in parliament. He called for greater regulation of AI and questioned whether people can distinguish between texts produced by humans and machines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1941881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[542],"tags":[15305,3896,8884,5207,10176,4012,5914,4554],"class_list":["post-1941880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oann","tag-ai-generated","tag-debate","tag-italian","tag-parliament","tag-reading","tag-senator","tag-sparks","tag-speech"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1941880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1941881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1941880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1941880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1941880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}