The U.S. Senate is officially moving into the generative AI era. A new memo from the Senate’s Chief Information Officer just authorized staff to use OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot for their daily duties. This marks a significant transition from the cautious bans of previous years to an active adoption of these tools for government work.
Aides are now encouraged to use these platforms to help draft documents, summarize briefing materials, and conduct research. While the policy comes with strict warnings about keeping classified and sensitive data off these platforms, the message is clear: AI is no longer a distant threat but a standard office tool in the halls of power.
🧠 Senate staff now have official access to enterprise AI accounts.
⚡ The memo highlights use cases like drafting talking points and briefing materials.
🎓 Microsoft Copilot is already integrated into the Senate’s existing software environment.
🔍 Security protocols strictly prohibit entering personally identifiable information into these tools.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/us/politics/us-senate-chatgpt-ai-chatbots.html
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AI "is" a tool, and don't come at me with that ignorant and fundamentalist fanaticism that's flooding the internet, or rather, social media.
For the professional who knows what they're doing, it's a tool. For the fool, it's entertainment. For the useless or the mediocre, it's a threat because it does things better than they do.
I'm almost 63, and my whole life I've heard the same thing said every time a new technology appeared. It happened with personal computers when there was one in every home, with the internet, with mobile phones, with GPS, with social media. I remember when I got my first cell phone in the 90s, and my father ranted, saying it was going to drive me crazy, and today the old fool spends all day sending memes and talking on WhatsApp with his friends. It's a small example of what will happen with AI.
Does it use a lot of energy? Does it use a lot of water? Is it environmentally unfriendly? PVC and plastic have been debated for decades, and today there's plastic even in fish and Antarctic ice; there's practically nothing that isn't made of plastic or wrapped in plastic.
Fools play with AI and train it, just as millions of fools bought cell phones in the last two decades, making manufacturers millionaires.
I personally don't use it because I don't need it, but if it could improve productivity, I would.
It's like any technology or tool. In the hands of a fool or an irresponsible person, it's a danger, but in the hands of a professional, it's an advantage.
#ai #aiethics #AiResearch #artificialintelligence #tools
Sometimes you have to be the one to stick your finger in the fan and then ask an AI, "As an AI, what are your greatest ethical concerns?"
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https://open.substack.com/pub/bisasquatch/p/when-you-ask-five-ai-about-ai-ethics
An insightful read from @Techcrunch: A bipartisan coalition of thinkers has assembled something the government has so far declined to produce: a framework for what responsible AI development should actually look like.
Sweden decoded whale language using AI — translating songs that span thousands of miles 🐋
Swedish marine biologists using advanced AI algorithms have partially decoded humpback whale communication, discovering that whale songs contain complex grammatical structures, cultural dialects, and information about ocean conditions transmitted across entire ocean basins. The research reveals whales possess one of the most sophisticated non-human communication systems on Earth.
The AI breakthrough: Machine learning analyzed 8,000 hours of whale recordings from underwater microphones spanning three oceans. The system identified recurring patterns, syntax rules, and contextual variations similar to human language. Whales use "phonemes" combined into "words" that form "sentences" with identifiable meaning.
Discoveries include: Warning calls about predators (transmitted 1,000+ km), mating advertisements containing individual "names," navigational information about food sources, and cultural songs passed down through generations with regional variations. Different whale populations have distinct "accents" similar to human dialects.
Most fascinating: Whales remember and modify songs from year to year, suggesting cultural evolution and possibly history-keeping. Some song elements remain unchanged for decades, like oral traditions.
Sweden's Project CETI (Cetacean Translation Initiative) aims for real-time whale communication by 2027.
Source: University of Stockholm Marine Biology, Science Advances 2025
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