Tag: AI

Last Wednesday, the podcast turned its attention to the church's role and its failures to address the issues of the day, including education, healthcare, prison reform, and the challenges posed by artificial intelligence.

U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) recently chaired a HELP Education & the American Family Subcommittee hearing on “The Future of K-12 Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence,” making the case for AI literacy as his home state implements AI courses throughout the school system.

There are certain things only we human beings can do that we should never allow the machines to pretend to do – else we create something ugly, wicked and untrue.

Writing is one of the last acts of sustained thought most people engage in. If writers hand even that over to the keyboard – and then, gradually, to AI – something structural is lost. Not just a skill. A habit of mind.

I believe the story unfolding at MARS is worth paying attention to, for when parents are empowered and founders are free to build, small schools can produce outsized results. And Alabama students can compete, not someday, but now, in the technologies shaping their futures.

On Tuesday, the Alabama House passed a consumer protection bill to ban the distribution of illegal sexualized content via artificial intelligence and provide remedies for victims.

But cyberspace, coupled with artificial intelligence (AI), presents new threats and raises new issues in protecting children from porn. ... All pornographers need to do is find a photo of an innocent person, generate a nude body to go with it, and they’re in business.

AI or artificial intelligence can do some amazing things, but it is also dangerous. Lawyers are cautioned not to rely on AI information, and at least one Alabama attorney has been disciplined for citing a non-existent case given to him by AI.  

I quietly turn off my TV. I shut off my phone. I close my laptop screen. And, just like that, I found God.

After speaking with residents at a Huntsville City Council meeting on Thursday evening, Mayor Tommy Battle and the council declined a proposed contract with a Tuscaloosa-based tech company specializing in artificial intelligence.

I haven’t been able to bring myself to do it – to bring her image “back to life” with Musk’s machine. Why? 

An attorney representing an alleged drug “kingpin” apologized to a federal judge in Mobile on Wednesday after submitting a brief with false case citations generated by an artificial intelligence program.

Though you have heard that power tends to corrupt, power also demands skill enough to make and break the rules regardless of accusations of corruption. 

Few among our politicians or tech entrepreneurs seem interested in such talk about the issues more AI will bring. But the rest of us need to be shaken awake and have light thrown on the dark path we’re already traveling.

Butler Snow, a law firm defending the Alabama Department of Corrections in multiple lawsuits, told an Alabama judge on Monday that its submission of a court filing generated by an artificial intelligence chatbot was an “isolated incident.”

A virtual robot will never replace the human companionship. But a “relationship” with a perfect AI boyfriend or girlfriend or friend is much easier to maintain, making the lure of such hollow companionship all the more dangerous.

Why do certain stories last through the twists and turns of time? Because, despite the passage of thousands of years – throwing men off course through the promise of this or that something perfect and new – certain stories sometimes capture imperfect things eternally true. 

Mark Zuckerberg thinks you don’t have enough friends, so he's here to help ... with robot friends.

Not all AI technology is bad, especially if it enhances your job and makes it easier. Nonetheless, the only way that harmful or dangerous technologies will succeed is when people stop thinking critically about them.

Before John Dewey, most people thought that the purpose of education was to pass on the ideals and values of our civilization. It was also seen as responsible for shaping each student into a human being in accordance with these beliefs.

When it comes to AI and future technologies, we don’t have to passively accept what the powers-that-be impose upon us. We can and should follow the Amish model of publicly debating their human value.

But now they’ve taken things to a new level. When my brother-in-law told me you could have a realistic, vocal conversation with ChatGPT, I had to experience this for myself. So I downloaded the app.

I knew something was wrong when we walked into our hotel room. Namely, because our toilet had blinking lights.

The Senate passed the Alabama Child Protection Act on Thursday.

The Alabama House of Representatives passed a bill on Thursday that would enhance penalties for those who use artificial intelligence to produce child pornography.

We must send a crystal-clear message that child sexual abuse material, in all its forms, will not be tolerated in Alabama.

An internet service named Drslots (Doctor Slots) has opened up a new sports cartoon series using Artificial Intelligence. It must be VERY intelligent because it sides strongly with the Crimson Tide.