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During Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s incapacity, we learned that her office was running as usual. So was Sen. Fetterman’s office. Staffers went on issuing press releases, taking positions and co-sponsoring bills on their behalf.
Senator Feinstein just introduced the Women’s Health Protection Act of 2023 to mandate abortion nationwide while outlawing state restrictions on late-term abortion when babies can feel pain… but Feinstein isn’t really introducing or sponsoring bills, her staffers, who announced her retirement without her knowing about it, are legislating in her name.
This is routine. Our government isn’t run by elected officials. And sometimes the elected officials aren’t even there. It’s just AI.
Susan Zhuang, who was elected to represent a newly created Asian-majority district in southern Brooklyn, admitted she uses popular AI tools like ChatGPT after being confronted by The Post about AI-generated answers she submitted for a recent Q and A interview with the media outlet City & State.
When asked, “What makes someone a New Yorker?” Zhaung sent back a 101-word response that began with, “New York City, the concrete jungle where dreams come true. It’s not just a place, it’s a state of mind. Being a New Yorker means having an unstoppable hustle, unbreakable resilience and unrivaled independence. …”
Hank Sheinkopf, a longtime New York-based Democratic political consultant, said he’s heard of elected officials using AI for campaigning — but never to respond to general questions from reporters or other members of the public. He fears it “could be the wave of the future.”
“It is very troubling,” he said. “We’d be better off with robots in public office – at least we would know what we got.”
I guess. Between staffers and AI, to what extent do we even have anything resembling the government envisioned by the Founding Fathers?
Susan Zhuang may not actually speak English, so she’s using AI to spit out cliches.
Zhuang, who speaks fluent Mandarin, later texted a reporter a prepared statement saying “as an immigrant and Brooklyn’s first Chinese-American Councilwoman, I, like many of my fellow immigrants, use AI as a tool to help foster deeper understanding as well as for personal growth, particularly when English is not my primary language.”
Creating formulaic answers using AI absolutely deepens understanding.
If we’re going to have politicians who are really a combination of their staffers and AI, what sort of government do we even have?
Dear citizens:
Concentrate upon obedience.
The rest is outside your purview.
Reminded me of foreign TAs who hardly spoke English teaching sections of math students.
Ah, yes. Pradip Bhattha got me through Calculus II 50+ years ago.
To your point, “elected” officials help preserve the illusion of a representative government.
Reading this article about this brave and forthright politica has most certainly deepened my understanding of her. And the sage social philosophy which she pretends to represent. Is everything a scam these days?
This article’s title and subtitle are sparkling gems set in reality’s creeping dross.
Understanding what the heck is going on is the only way to remain sane and strong enough to prevent being sucked, pulled, swallowed up and dragged into this growing, anti-human abyss.
Wokeism has been all about the surface of things, not substantive, but superficial.
I’m thinking that artificiality of chatGPT, besides being a substitute or replacement for a functioning brain, is super-superficial superficiality.
ChatGPT ends the joy and challenge of thinking. It’s plagiarism that
erases all traces of self, imagination and integrity.
It’s like a woman giving birth to a doll.
I would really like to give you a thumbs up for the “ woman giving birth to a doll” phrase which gives a wonderfully horrible creepy visual (who knows what’s next?) that describes our world.
But I cant because the thumbs up doesn’t work. Also I am moderated on every comment. No matter what I type in. Perhaps I will be swatted by the Ai next.
I was pretty startled myself when that image popped into my head. Most of my comments are held for moderation.
I think it’s just a processing thing.
Mine too, even though they are pretty bland and inoffensive. Or at least I try to make them so.
Sometimes one has to hit the upvote button several times for it to work, and sometimes it just doesn’t work. I think how many, and how fast you give them might have something to do with it. They’re usually approved in a reasonable ammount of time, and there is a lot less spam these days.
It’s not surprising that some of our officials rely on AI for answers that totally escape the knowledge of so many. Maybe that’s the cause of so many strange utterances coming from government officials today.
On the other hand, as you suggest, if indeed this Councilwoman used AI and her staff does also, why not just have their respective AI’s connect and issue the statement directly thereby eliminating the need for any real person.
It would save on salaries, benefits, and pensions.
Is it any wonder that the disintegration of the historic American nation is happening? Unelected bureaucrats from new waves of immigrants don’t understand what it means to be a New Yorker much less have the sense of what it means to be an American.
These are the deep staters. They have no interest in preserving what was the exceptional society. I like tho think that it used to be Presidents could write their own speeches, congress members knew their constituents and could write their own bills. Now it’s seat warmers turning to soulless chatbots to form opinions and policy.
Hey, look on the BRIGHT side – at least there’s SOME “intelligence” going on!
We need to get a handle on this before it’s too late! I’d say a COMPLETE BAN on “ai” for everything other than mindless entertainment by nitwits who know nothing about history, art, and real life!
Reminds me of Rome during the Dark Ages. Seriously, with their malfunctioning political systems.
We have a government of the politicians, by the lobbyists, and for the special interest groups. In the meantime, if the elected official is not in his/her office, a lobbyist will fill in and write the bills for them and hand it to a staff person for processing. You have to understand, the elected official very rarely sits down and write the bills themselves. It is all done for him or her.
I remember a reporter asking a Senator about a certain bill and the details of that bill. He said he didn’t know because the lobbyists have not finish writing it. That is when I realize that politicians are useless when representing the people that elected them.
Maybe, it would be better to have 100 robots in the Senate and 435 robots in the House. At least, they would not cost the taxpayers any money in the form of salaries and benefits, and they would be able to do something 24 hours a day, seven days a week with no coffee breaks. They could do housekeeping duties at night as well.
Yeah, the lobbyists write the bills.
This has been absolutely unremarkable to the Democrats for years. Democrats didn’t care that Fetterman was a vegetable when he was elected, because they understood that he was just a placeholder, and that his official functions would be handled by The Party. Democrats are comfortable letting The Party handle all governmental affairs, since The Party is the embodiment of the Progressive Vision, which will replace the rule of law with the wisdom of experts, such as the wonderful Dr. Fauci, who saved us from the COVID epidemic which would have killed us all if not for His divine intervention.