Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC) was left stunned by resurfaced comments by a former Department of Homeland Security official leading an effort to use artificial intelligence to target free speech.
During a Tuesday Congressional hearing dealing with the issue of the use of AI in censorship, Bishop reacted forcefully to chilling comments by Brian Murphy, who led the intelligence wing of the DHS during the Trump administration before leaving to become managing director of Logically.AI, a dystopian-like British AI company that arbitrarily polices and flags online content that it deems “misinformation.” Bishop reacted by saying Murphy’s comments in support of censorship troubled him. He described the routine dismissal and partisan bashing of dissent even by members of Congress as “…a grave danger to the society if that’s the way that Congress devolves to.”
