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The subject, “Artificial Intelligence in Elections,” would be the focus of the League of Women Voters Chaffee County (LWVCC) from 12:00 midday to 1:00 p.m. on Monday, September 9 on the Congregational United Church of Christ (217 Crossman Avenue, Buena Vista).
The League of Women Voters of Chaffee County marches in the 2024 Fourth of July parade in BV. Picture by Carly Winchell.
In accordance to the LWVCC, the panel will sort out questions associated to Artificial Intelligence (AI), corresponding to, “How does it work? What are the probabilities and threats? How ought to we perceive it in the context of our elections?”
The panel will characteristic Colorado Home District 27 Consultant Brianna Titone (D).
Titone will current background on AI-associated laws handed in the 2024 legislative session.
Titone serves as Chair of the Joint Know-how of the State Normal Meeting Joint Know-how Committee. She additionally serves on the Agriculture, Water and Pure Assets Committee and the Power and Setting Committee. Titone earned bachelor’s levels in geology and physics from the State College of New York at New Paltz, a grasp’s diploma in geochemistry at Stony Brook College, and a grasp’s diploma in data and communications know-how on the College of Denver.
Titone was a major sponsor of laws requiring political candidates to clearly label commercials that characteristic AI generated content material (HB24-1147). She was additionally a lead sponsor of one other profitable invoice establishing client protections for AI (SB24-205).
Dr. Dan Bishop is a retired professor of chemistry from Colorado State College (CSU). Bishop will be part of Consultant Titone to present background on AI. Bishop will describe its improvement and spotlight advances alongside the dangers.
Bishop actively pursued Laptop Assisted Instruction in his lessons and labs and marketed his packages nationwide all through his educating profession. This led to a transfer to Buena Vista together with his spouse Ann, the place they lived on and off between 1980 and 2000.
He continued to market his packages and created customized software program for some native companies. He additionally did a stint as lead programmer in Colorado Springs for Lockheed Martin’s house program. He and his spouse now name Salida house.
Bishop has offered on the subject of AI domestically earlier than, together with on the Central Colorado Humanists Sunday Science program on May 5 earlier this yr.
A query and reply interval will comply with the shows.
LWVCC Treasurer and the AI program planner Kate Shea famous that exploring this subject aligns with the League’s aim of empowering voters to make knowledgeable selections.
“Understanding the advanced and evolving subject of AI and sharpening our skill to acknowledge disinformation from deepfakes is vital to voter determination making,” acknowledged the LWVCC message on the occasion.
LWVCC members and the general public could submit questions prior to the panel by emailing Shea at KMoiraShea@MSN.com.