<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">The Today's Issues group meets at 9:30 on Sunday mornings in person in the parlor of the Religious Education buildings next to the church and on <a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8583258484?pwd=RFdJUGZOZkU4THArWFpnVkllZzh1dz09">Zoom</a>.    On this Sunday, October 1, 2023, we will continue our discussion of the regulation of artificial intelligence.  Here is reading material, collected in one file:</font><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-38b7ab14-7fff-d899-6d74-751fd488d5e1"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/25/technology/microsoft-ai-rules-regulation.html" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Microsoft Calls for AI Rules to Minimize Risks - The New York Times (nytimes.com)</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">  </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/27/opinion/lindsey-graham-elizabeth-warren-big-tech-regulation.html?searchResultPosition=1" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Opinion | Lindsey Graham and Elizabeth Warren: We Must Regulate Big Tech - The New York Times (nytimes.com)</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">  Letter opposing: </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/09/opinion/letters/lindsey-graham-elizabeth-warren-big-tech.html" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Opinion | A Bipartisan Plan to Limit Big Tech - The New York Times (nytimes.com)</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">   </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bA3j-OcGmxrWSOPGjbuAbldSbFpY-n4BKA1h8vH00FU/edit?usp=sharing" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Google Docs Copy of all items, five pages</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">.  </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></span><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">We will also discuss the current crisis in Congress that may lead to a government shutdown.  Here is a reading:  </span></span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/23/us/republicans-congress-freedom-caucus.html" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;background-color:transparent;font-va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