arguing in front of the fifth circuit court of appeals in new orleans, laying out a case of why the fda approved abortion bill should remain on the market. what we know about the panel of judges we have to convince, we re not just watching louisiana, the republican super majority in north carolina voted to override the democratic governor s detail, making abortion illegal after 12 weeks of pregnancy. governor cooper argues in practice, the law might act like a total ban. we are on the ground in rally with what happened right before and after that vote. in nebraska, republicans are revising their failed six-week abortion pill ban to i m sorry, abortion bill ban to 12 weeks to remember the six-week ban was sunk by a single republican holdout. does his vote change to a yes for a 12-week ban? in south carolina, after three republican women refused to sign on to a total ban, the party is now weighing a new option, banning abortion after a fetal heart beat is detected. typically
zuckerberg, then it was tiktok, now open ai ceo sam altman is calling on congress for a government intervention on artificial intelligence. nbc s tom costello has more. reporter: underscoring the promise and peril posed by artificial intelligence. we have seen what happens when technology outpaces regulation. reporter: tuesday s senate hearing started with a voice that sounded like senator richard blumenthal, but wasn t. that voice was not mine. the audio was an ai voice cloning software, trained on my floor speeches. reporter: the words, written by ai program chatgpt, the man behind chatgpt, open ai ceo, sam altman is now pleading with congress to regulate ai before it s too late. my worst fears are that we cause significant, we the field, the technology, the industry, cause significant harm to the world.
true, and not in a free and open democratic society, where we can choose what we allow to move across the market. it s that narrative we need to be watching out for in the future as we see more of these kinds of appearances. the threats to humanity on one end of the spectrum, and also more immediately, the threats to the job market and ai negating a number of american jobs. when sam altman was talking about that, he was talking about ai is a good tool to use for jobs, but it shouldn t replace jobs. how did he argue congress should look at that? reporter: well, he is certainly of the opinion, and he said this not just before congress but over and over again in podcasts and appearances, we have tried not been able to. you know, he says he believes it will be the greatest creator of wealth in human history and there will be an incredible increase in the quality of life. but in the short term what we are seeing are things like state agencies turning over functions to a.i. we were speak
if this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong. ai s peril is far more than stealing a singer s voice and compose ago composing essays, it could counterfeit humans, steal identities, spread fake news and medical advice, undermine elections, democracies, even start wars, and there is wide agreement that humans could soon start losing their jobs to ai. how do we find meaning in life if the ai can do your job better than you can. reporter: billionaire, elon musk who helped fund open ai is among hundreds of tech leaders calling for the industry to hit pause. last night, he talked exclusively to cnbc s david faber. there s a strong probability it will make life much better, and there s some chance that it goes wrong, and destroys humanity, hopefully that chance is small but it s not zero. reporter: for years hollywood has envisioned a dark future