Not sure how this ties in to that whole Amendment the First thingy.
From IEEE Spectrum, January 31:
Automated influence campaigns could spell trouble for society
Concerns around how professional lobbyists distort the political process are nothing new. But new evidence suggests their efforts could soon be turbocharged by increasingly powerful language AI. A proof of concept from a Stanford University researcher shows that the technology behind Internet sensation ChatGPT could help automate efforts to influence politicians.
Political lobbyists spend a lot of time scouring draft bills to assess if they’re pertinent to their clients’ objectives, and then drafting talking points for speeches, media campaigns, and letters to Congress designed to influence the direction of the legislation. Given recent breakthroughs in the ability of AI-powered services like ChatGPT to analyze and generate text, John Nay, a fellow at the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics, wanted to investigate whether these models could take over some of that work.
In a matter of days, he was able to piece together a rudimentary AI lobbyist using OpenAI’s GPT-3 large language model (LLM), which is the brains behind ChatGPT. In a paper published on the arXiv preprint server, he showed that the model was able to predict 75 percent of the time whether a summary of a U.S. congressional bill was relevant to a specific company. What’s more, the AI was able to then draft a letter to the bill’s sponsor arguing for changes to the legislation.
“The lawmaking process is not ready for this,” says Nay. “This was just a simple proof of concept built over a few days. With more resources and more time spent on this, especially with more focus on building out the workflow and a user experience tied in with the day-to-day of human lobbyists, this could likely be built into something relatively sophisticated.”....
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Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute has a snappy little discussion of the Petition Clause:
Amdt1.4.1 Freedom of Assembly and Petition: Overview
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
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We may have to have ChatGPT rewrite the First Amendment to something like:
....the right of the robots peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
This should be doable. If interested see FindLaw's discussion of the expansion of the Right of Petition over the years.
Annotation 21 - First Amendment
RIGHTS OF ASSEMBLY AND PETITION
