president mark rotenberg joins us live. one is on the east coast and one on the west coast. guys, good morning to you. good morning. good morning. steve: lewis, you are out on the west coast right now. explain for the folks what is ai? what is artificial intelligence and what can it do? what s your worry? yeah, so, ai in broader sense is when computers can replace human level tasks and we have been working on that for decades and decades but all of a sudden very, very quickly, we are now on the verge of a revolution that where ai has the potential to change society in really large ways. as big as the pc revolution, internet revolution, mobile phone revolution in the very near future we will just talk to our computers and they will talk back. and that s how we are interact with a lot of our software and that s a really big change and then we will ask our computers to create content. documents, artwork, videos.
place is something that we re going to be able to manage as we managed other transitions. i think the call for the pause right now is exactly correct. your organization is actually filing a complaint with the federal government sprain that. we worked with the computer scientists in support of the petition. then we thought what s practical next step that we can take? and we believe the practical next step is to go to the federal trade commission, which does have authority to regulate commercial products and to say to the federal trade commission this is a commercial product. it s called gpt. open ai making it available for sale. we. the ftc to basically suspend the future release until the guardrails that lewis was describing a moment ago are established. when you have the in place then