How AI Is Testing the Bounds of the First Amendment
Artificial intelligence technology is making its way into more areas of daily life. But there are still many unknowns about AI, including major legal questions about the ways the technology should be governed, and which AI-generated speech is, or is not, protected under the First Amendment.\xa0\nGenerative AI, in its\xa0most basic form, is \u201ctrained on vast amounts of data,\u201d according to Ryan Bangert, senior vice president of strategic initiatives at Alliance Defending Freedom.\xa0\u201cIt ingests petabytes of information in order to learn how human language works, in order to understand how it is that human syntax grammar is structured, and then it predicts what comes next.\u201d\nGenerative AI is \u201cnot a mind, it's not a consciousness, it's not a human being,\u201d Bangert says. \u201cIt's a piece of software, a very complex piece of software, that's fulfilling an algorithmic function.\u201d\nTherefore, he adds, generative AI is \u201cnot a First Amendment rights-bearing entity.\u201d\nIn their new paper, \u201cThe Ghost in the Machine: How Generative AI Will Test the Bounds of the First Amendment,\u201d Bangert and Jeremy Tedesco, senior vice president of corporate engagement at Alliance Defending Freedom, parse the relationship between AI and the First Amendment.\xa0\nBangert and Tedesco join \u201cThe Daily Signal Podcast\u201d to discuss the fight to protect free speech amid rapidly changing AI technology use.