City councilman Ramiro Rosário revealed their use of AI in a statement to The Associated Press, which reported: ‘that he asked OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT to craft a proposal to prevent the city from charging taxpayers to replace water consumption meters if they are stolen. He then presented it to his 35 peers on the council without making a single change or even letting them know about its unprecedented origin.’
If I had revealed it before, the proposal certainly wouldn’t even have been taken to a vote.
It would be unfair to the population to run the risk of the project not being approved simply because it was written by artificial intelligence.
Rosário told the AP over the phone on Thursday. The 36-member council approved it unanimously and the ordinance went into effect on November 23rd
Rosário claims that his silence on using AI up to this point was intentional, as he also wanted to spark a debate over AI’s applications. ‘He entered a 49-word prompt into ChatGPT and it returned the full draft proposal within seconds, including justifications, the AP said.
I am convinced that … humanity will experience a new technological revolution. All the tools we have developed as a civilization can be used for evil and good. That’s why we have to show how it can be used for good.
He added
The AP added: ‘Porto Alegre, with a population of 1.3 million, is the second-largest city in Brazil’s south. The city’s council president, Hamilton Sossmeier, found out that Rosário had enlisted ChatGPT to write the proposal when the councilman bragged about the achievement on social media on Wednesday. Sossmeier initially told local media he thought it was a “dangerous precedent.”’
But Sossmeier has already been swayed and is willing to embrace AI in this context.
I changed my mind. I started to read more in depth and saw that, unfortunately or fortunately, this is going to be a trend.
Sossmeier said.
Others in the U.S. are looking to adopt AI into the lawmaking process. State Senator Barry Finegold of Massachusetts (D) explained that he used ChatGPT to help write a bill aimed at regulating artificial intelligence models, including ChatGPT. He submitted the bill earlier this year and has yet to have been voted upon.
We want work that is ChatGPT generated to be watermarked. I’m in favor of people using ChatGPT to write bills as long as it’s clear.
Finegold told the AP, saying that AI in politics is inevitable, but says it can help with some of the more tedious elements of the lawmaking process, including correctly and quickly searching and citing laws already on the books.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.
Proverbs 14:31
What you are seeing here is what I have been warning about this AI revolution, that AI is being treated and heralded as a god, a deliverer, that can save us and answer all our problems. Now we got AI writing laws that are enforced, and all these oppressed oppressors are just casually saying, ‘yeah, we’re gonna use incorporate AI if not totally outright, and that’s that way it’s going to be.’
People complain about unelected officials dictating policies to people; well then, I suppose you and I have seen nothing yet. Who’s AI accountable to? Who gets the blame when the AI eventually takes over the physical role of politician and is replaced (oh, and it WILL happen, just wait), and the AI screws up or generates something no one likes? Now THAT’S some oppression…
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Nice, lawmaking by a computer; think that ya getten screwed by evil people, how about evil AI.
A computer only puts out what a man puts in it and tells it, wicked in, wicked out