Congressman Adam Schiff of California has intensified his scrutiny of Google’s management of AI technologies, particularly its AI Overview, which summarizes top web pages but has been prone to errors, raising concerns about its tendency to spread “misinformation.”
While it’s true that Google’s AI has been known to output bizarre and false information, and many have been alarmed about the potential implications of unreliable AI outputs, there’s a broader skepticism about the idea of government intervention, given that it involves the regulation of information and speech.
The AI Overview aims to provide succinct information to users, but Schiff’s inquiries to Google CEO Sundar Pichai suggest it may often use questionable sources. It shouldn’t fall to the government to be the ones who can choose which sources are reliable.
