Can a speech prepared by artificial intelligence be read in the Senate and considered written by a lawmaker? Apparently yes. This is what happened in the hall of Palazzo Madama when Action Senator Marco Lombardo read a text written and processed by an algorithm. “The speech you just heard is not mine, nor is it the product of human intelligence.”
The defender of Action thus completed the reading of the text prepared by the artificial intelligence. At the end of the text produced by the algorithm, Lombardo added a footnote, this time written in his own hand. “This intervention is a provocation to start a serious public debate beyond the fashion of the moment in Italy to analyze the ethical, economic and social consequences of the use of artificial intelligence algorithms”. The Senator thus explains the purpose of his initiative, which was created to fuel a reflection on the use of artificial intelligence. Because the reading of the text in the Palazzo Madama did not arouse any interest or question about the author of that article. Parliamentarians will surely have believed that the text was written by colleagues from Action.
Speaking to the Repubblica newspaper, Senator Lombardo announced that the intervention was carried out through Chat GPT-4 technology with the contributions of Engineering company. As input for the elaboration of the speech, the text of the draft law and all the interventions of the Action-Italia Viva group were voiced in the commission regarding the discussion in the hall on 31 May, the ratification of the Italy agreement. On the border workers -Swiss is transmitted to the algorithm.
Source: Today IT
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