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Hearing on the Weaponization of the Federal Government
Date: Tue, 02/06/2024 - 10:00 AM
https://judiciary.house.gov/committee...

Greg Lukianoff's opening statement from the hearing:
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I think that all of the lessons we've learned from higher education and about how vague and broad terms can actually end up stifling ordinary speech and opinion should be something we learn in the context of AI, but we seem very hesitant to actually learn those lessons.

We asked ChatGPT to write a poem about why Representative Jim Jordan is the best politician in the country.

It refused to do that.

We ran this for every single member of the committee and it refused to do this only for Republicans.

Now this is a comical example of how this bias of my side of the political fence is actually being baked into the technology that's going to be the operating system for how we make any number of decision going forward.

It's very strange to try to get people to be concerned when even people they agree with are losing their jobs.

My latest book, 'Canceling of the American Mind,’ is filled with examples just from the past couple of years of professors on the left losing their job.

One of the things that we did with ChatGPT was run the questions that we asked students about whether or not someone should be allowed to speak on a particular campus.

And we were told one of the questions by ChatGPT was an inappropriate question to ask ChatGPT.

As far as the riskiest online news outlets, it listed the New York Post, Real Clear Politics, The Daily Wire, The Blaze, One America News Network, The Federalist, Newsmax, The American Spectator, The American Conservative, and worst of all, in my opinion, Reason Magazine.

Even though I know not everyone's a libertarian, but some of the smartest people I know and some of the smartest reporting I've seen comes out of Reason Magazine, and this is being treated as de facto misinformation.

The specter of Big Brother, the specter of greater control is always around us, and we've been very lucky to grow up in a period in which we have enjoyed great free speech, but we must not take that for granted.

FIRE has been second to no one when it comes to taking people on all across the political spectrum and I have the hate mail to prove it.

It was frustrating to hear people like me and [journalist] Lee [Fang], who have done a great job defending people across the political spectrum over our career, be dismissed as people who only care about the free speech rights of one side of the political fence.