Congress gets crash course in dangers, benefits of AI
College students present their research on Capitol Hill
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - Artificial intelligence is quickly taking over almost every aspect of our technology. The average American may not realize that they are likely interacting with AI every day.
Those studying AI find great advances, but also great risks.
One of the biggest concerns with AI are deepfakes, which allow technology to superimpose someone else’s face on you. So you have no idea how or who you’re getting your information from.
Ethan Price from Dakota State University was on Capitol Hill Monday, showing off his technology to combat the dangers of deepfakes.
“We can mitigate them being generated of frames that look like somebody else. Voice phones. I can sound like your grandma.”
He’s participating in the Congressional AI exhibition.
Colton Crum of Notre Dame University is here to show how a camera can detect heart rates using AI.
Colton explains,
“Your face has these small micro-expressions. You and I can’t see it, but I can detect it.” Colton showed out the AI sensing system works, “And then from there, we’re getting an adjustment, which is your beats per minute in the bottom left hand corner.” Washington reporter Molly Martinez asked, “Can this tell that I’m out of shape?”
Crum reassured her, “It looks like you have a you’re a runner and you have great health.”
Jason Greenlow, who organized the event wants to make sure Congress stays ahead of the runaway train that is becoming AI.
“AI is leaping out of our computer terminals and into our world. It’s increasingly managing our offices, our businesses, our cars, our airplanes, our farms. And so if Congress doesn’t understand how it works, they can’t make the appropriate guardrails to protect us against its risks.”
The presentations were organized by the Center for AI Policy.
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