NYC Mayor Eric Adams uses AI to make robocalls in languages he doesn’t speak

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Eric Adams speaking into a microphone
Mayor Eric Adams during a press conference at City Hall Blue Room on Tuesday, October 10th, 2023.  | Photo by Luiz C. Ribeiro for NY Daily News via Getty Images

Thanks to artificial intelligence tools, New York City Mayor Eric Adams has sent a barrage of robocalls to residents in languages he doesn’t speak.

That includes “thousands” of robocalls in Spanish, more than 250 in Yiddish, more than 160 in Mandarin, 89 in Cantonese, and 23 in Haitian Creole, The City reports. That’s triggered pushback over how ethical it is for Adams to portray himself to potential voters as someone who speaks their native language when he actually doesn’t.

“This is deeply unethical, especially on the taxpayer’s dime. Using AI to convince New Yorkers that he speaks languages that he doesn’t is deeply Orwellian,” Albert Fox Cahn, executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (STOP), said in a s...

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source https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/17/23920733/nyc-mayor-eric-adams-ai-robocalls-spanish-mandarin

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