FIRST ON FOX: A brand new GOP-led invoice aims to cease U.S. tax dollars from going towards a United Nations-run program that makes use of synthetic intelligence to assist weed out content material deemed to be misinformation or hate speech.
Rep. Ben Cline, R-Va., is introducing the End The U.N. Censorship Act this week. AI has emerged as a high precedence for lawmakers on Capitol Hill this yr. Its developments, in addition to its pitfalls, have impressed a slew of laws as Washington, D.C., races to get forward of the quickly rising expertise.
“The United Nations Development Programme’s iVerify tool is something straight out of Orwell’s ‘1984,’ using AI to help label, suppress, and censor speech online at the expense of American tax dollars. That’s wrong and goes against the very principles enshrined in the First Amendment. We must prevent taxpayer dollars from playing any part in censorship on a global scale, and my bill will do just that,” Cline advised Fox News Digital.
OPENAI CEO SAM ALTMAN SPEAKS ABOUT ‘CHANGES’ IN LABOR MARKET WITH TECH REVOLUTIONS
Rep. Ben Cline, R-Va., is pushing Congress to cut off funding towards worldwide packages he says encourage censorship.
The invoice would cease U.S. funding to the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) iVerify initiative and “for any other effort that seeks to label speech or expression as mal-, mis-, or dis-information,” in accordance to legislative textual content obtained by Fox News Digital.
The iVerify program is at the moment being utilized in Kenya, Honduras, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Zambia. It makes use of each public participation and machine studying to level out content material deemed “harmful” to particular groups of fact-checkers.
MUSK, ZUCKERBERG, OTHER TECH GIANTS DESCENE ON CAPITOL HILL FOR SENATE AI FORUM
The invoice particularly targets the United Nations Development Programme iVerify initiative. (Kena Betancur/Getty Images for Global Goals)
A submit on UNDP’s web site saying iVerify’s use in Sierra Leone forward of its elections this previous June defined, “Leveraging the capabilities of artificial intelligence, potentially false or harmful content is flagged for verification by the team. Following a fact-check, the results are shared not only with those who requested the verification but also with all other Sierra Leoneans who visit the website and social media channels.”
UNDP made a video in 2021 saying iVerify as a approach to weed out “false news stories” and “toxic content.”
GOOGLE TO REQUIRE POLITICAL ADS TO DISCLOSE USE OF AI DURING 2024 ELECTION CYCLE
The UNDP’s iVerify program is aimed toward removing misinformation, notably surrounding elections. (Nate Smallwood/Bloomberg by way of Getty Images)
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP
“It’s election time, and I’m excited to vote. But how do I know I can trust the information I’m seeing online? That’s where iVerify comes in. I can ask iVerify if an article is true or not. When someone messages iVerify about a suspicious article, it goes to a whole team of highly trained local fact checkers to check to see if the article is reliable. iVerify also uses machine learning to check if an article has already been reviewed to avoid duplication,” the video mentioned.
“It also monitors social media for toxic content, horrible messages…What’s more, iVerify can monitor everything posted on social media in a day for toxic content.”
