A.I. Wrote a Housing Bill
Assemblyman Clyde Vanel, who chairs the Assembly Subcommittee on Internet and New Technology, asked AutoGPT to identify a gap in New York law to lay groundwork for “a more transparent landlord-tenant relationship," claiming that using A.I. for this purpose was no different from accepting ideas shared by constituents and was merely a single step at the beginning of the long, human, legislative process.
John Pelissero, senior scholar, government ethics, called attention to the ethical and political costs.
“If the voters have to make another decision in two years about whether to keep that person in office,” he said, “they should be able to do so based upon a reasonable expectation that what they’re observing and seeing is the actual individual that they elected.”
He added: “It’s what representative democracy is based upon.”
John Pelissero, senior scholar, government ethics, quoted by The New York Times.