Good morning. So this meeting will now come to order. Today the subcommittee is holding a hearing entitled oversight of doe, during covid19 pandemic. Members will be participating in todays hearing finally in person or remotely via video conferences. And just as a reminder weve had some technical difficulties in making sure that our remote video was operating up to standard. As part of this hearing, the microphones of members participating remotely will be set on mute for the purpose of eliminating inadvertent background noise. Members participating remotely will need to unmute their microphones each time you wish to speak. For members and witnesses participating in person, i encourage you to wear your mask whenever you are not speaking. Dr. Monahan, our physician, stressed in attending physician covid19 guidelines that use of face coverings is meant to protect other people in case someone was unknowingly infected and does not have symptoms. But wearing our mask when we are not speakin
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Cox supports cspan as a Public Service along with their other Television Providers giving a front row seat to democracy. Open a icao sam altman whose Company Created chatgpt was my three Artificial Intelligence experts to testify on oversight of the swiftly developing technology. On the subcommittee hearing mr. Altman stated could cause significant harm to the world heres the rest of that hearing. [background noises] welcome to the hearing of the Privacy Technology and the lotom subcommittee. I think my partner in this effort senator hawley, Ranking Member and i particularly want to thank senator durbin, chairman of the Judiciary Committee. He will be speaking shortly. This hearing is on the oversight of Artificial Intelligence. The first in a series of hearings intended to write the rules of ai. Our goal is to demystify and hold accountable of new technologies to avoid some of the mistakes of the past. And now, for some introductory remarks. Too often we have seen what happens when Te
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Hello. Im kris jansing and there is Breaking News at this hour. The u. S. Military announcing it launched two air strikes on two locations over Eastern Syria used by iran guard and troops. The defense secretary said the launches were against ongoing iranian backed Militia Groups that began just over a week ago. In those instances militants used drones and rockets to attack multiple u. S. Installations in the region. The pentagon said those attacks left 21 americans with minor injuries, one u. S. Contractor die of a cardiac event. Now, there is a precedent here. The u. S. Has launched similar air strikes in Syria Including Last march when another u. S. Contractor was killed by a Militia Drone in syria. Defense secretary Austin Describeded the overnight launches as, quote, selfdefense and in a statement called them separate and distinct from the hamas conflict. But of course iran is a backer of hamas. All of it putting u. S. Forces in a delicate position, trying to protect personnel whil