Gov. Josh Shapiro: ‘We Took Action Here in Pennsylvania to Stop’ This AI Chatbot Held out as ‘An Expert in Psychology’

SHAPIRO: “Well, look, this company has 20 million users and these users trust the product that is coming to them. We challenged our department of state that oversees this type of work, these types of investigations for us to go and use this technology and see what kind of risks it posed to Pennsylvania children or any pennsylvanian, within just a few minutes, our investigators, by the way, Jake, using their official email addresses, they were not masking who they were connected with. A chat bot. Emily, that chatbot was held out as an expert in psychology or psychiatry, and within just a few minutes was dispensing medical advice and ultimately offering a medical I.D. number for here in Pennsylvania, as really the, the, the, the, you know, the authority to be able to issue that medical advice. Obviously, it was a bogus medical I.D. Number and the information that was dispensed was really dangerous.”

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Gov. Josh Shapiro: ‘We Took Action Here in Pennsylvania to Stop’ This AI Chatbot Held out as ‘An Expert in Psychology’‘Within just a few minutes was dispensing medical advice and ultimately offering a medical I.D. number’News & PoliticsRUSH EXCERPT:SHAPIRO: “Well, look, this company has 20 million users and these users trust the product that is coming to them. We challenged our department of state that oversees this type of work, these types of investigations for us to go and use this technology and see what kind of risks it posed to Pennsylvania children or any pennsylvanian, within just a few minutes, our investigators, by the way, Jake, using their official email addresses, they were not masking who they were connected with. A chat bot. Emily, that chatbot was held out as an expert in psychology or psychiatry, and within just a few minutes was dispensing medical advice and ultimately offering a medical I.D. number for here in Pennsylvania, as really the, the, the, the, you know, the authority to be able to issue that medical advice. Obviously, it was a bogus medical I.D. Number and the information that was dispensed was really dangerous.”Video filesFullCompactSort byDateSummaryRelevancePopularityPer page81216Audio filesFullCompactSort byDateSummaryRelevancePopularityPer page81216Recipient e-mailMessage (optional)Preview

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