{"id":177220,"date":"2023-12-01T16:26:21","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T22:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/brazilian-city-enacts-an-ordinance-that-was-secretly-written-by-chatgpt"},"modified":"2023-12-01T16:26:21","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T22:26:21","slug":"brazilian-city-enacts-an-ordinance-that-was-secretly-written-by-chatgpt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/brazilian-city-enacts-an-ordinance-that-was-secretly-written-by-chatgpt","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian city enacts an ordinance that was secretly written by ChatGPT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brazilian-city-enacts-an-ordinance-that-was-secretly-written-by-chatgpt.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) \u2014 City lawmakers in Brazil have enacted what appears to be the nation\u2019s first legislation written entirely by artificial intelligence \u2014 even if they didn\u2019t know it at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The experimental ordinance was passed in October in the southern city of Porto Alegre and city councilman Ramiro Ros\u00e1rio revealed this week that it was written by a chatbot, sparking objections and raising questions about the role of artificial intelligence in public policy.<\/p>\n<p>Ros\u00e1rio told The Associated Press that he asked OpenAI\u2019s chatbot ChatGPT to craft a proposal to prevent the city from charging taxpayers to replace water consumption meters if they are stolen. He then presented it to his 35 peers on the council without making a single change or even letting them know about its unprecedented origin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) \u2014 City lawmakers in Brazil have enacted what appears to be the nation\u2019s first legislation written entirely by artificial intelligence \u2014 even if they didn\u2019t know it at the time. The experimental ordinance was passed in October in the southern city of Porto Alegre and city councilman Ramiro Ros\u00e1rio revealed this [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}