A New York State lawmaker used artificial intelligence to write a housing bill that will do little to help renters

New York State Assemblyman Clyde Vanel (Clyde Vanel) used artificial intelligence to draft a bill regulating the rental housing market.

Here's What We Know

The document clearly states that the bill and its explanatory memorandum were researched and written by an artificial intelligence. The human, in turn, checked and refined the accuracy and wording.

The bill was an experiment conducted by Vanel's office. The Auto-GPT system was used to write it. It actually represents multiple versions of ChatGPT working in concert to accomplish a common task.

Vanel chairs the Assembly's Internet and Emerging Technologies subcommittee. Legislature Director Tyler Fritzhand said they tasked Auto-GPT with researching New York's legislation, finding a gap in it, and then writing a bill and an explanatory memo. All the office had to do was enter a command, set the parameters, and run the algorithm.

The end result was several drafts, one of which attempted to somehow fix loopholes in New York's gun laws. Fritzhand said that document turned out to be too bizarre.

Rental housing marketers and advocacy groups said the law was unnecessary because it wouldn't affect anything. Vanel's office knew the issue was not a top priority for advocates. They were hoping that AI would pick up on something that other people hadn't thought of.

Source: Gizmodo.