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    "id": 1588878,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1588878/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tigania West, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) John Mutunga Kanyuithia",
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    "content": "Member is speaking loudly about is need for a regulatory framework to guide how we use AI. Especially in the advent of potential job losses, need for further and more intensive and complicated industrialisation, and the growth stage that we are currently in. We witness how artificial intelligence plays a role in movies and sometimes in news cast. Especially in collecting intelligence from various places or mapping an area using drones. Even determining where to spray for pest and disease control in agriculture, AI has become important. In modern warfare, drones have been used quite much. I believe one of the advancements we need today is AI enabling us identify the powers of the enemy, the placement and distribution of their economy, their warfare strategies, and investments in various areas. In the service sector, we have also seen that AI has become very important. It is key for us to embrace AI as a country. I participated in a convention on coffee marketing in Houston, America, two months ago. We were amazed by the level certain countries have reached in coffee service itself. Robots take orders from a human being, prepare the coffee, serve it in specific amounts, ensure payment, and that the combinations are correct. How do we embrace AI even as this knowledge permeates across the board? The country must embrace AI but in a systematic manner where we can control its users. Regulation is important. We need to discern the measures of control to take when it comes to using AI. It is important to focus on areas that could be dangerous to human beings so that we promote AI prudently, especially in areas like manufacturing. Most manufacturing sectors in other countries have embraced AI. This country also has investments in this area. We need a policy as we look at how to invest and what levels of control we should exercise. This policy direction will help us to manage this process as a country. Kenya is noted as one of the countries in Africa that has advanced in ICT. Investment in ICT is a deliberate decision by the current government. A ministry is exploring possibilities in the digital divide. How we can exploit the opportunities therein and even how we can employ our youth. Let us discern the sections or parts of the investment structure we should integrate AI as we explore these possibilities. Every sector is undergoing digitisation. As we look at it, we must accept that it is not possible for us to control learners fully. Research has to go on in various areas of ICT. Our learners must try out options and explore possibilities. We know innovations have been born in this country in that process. They have borne fruit and created a lot of employment. The M- Pesa innovation is an example. They may be the innovations that replace lost jobs. We need to allow contained research to continue so that we monitor the areas to focus on and the possible outcomes being discovered. Hon. Temporary Speaker, there is much disinformation. Especially through media and social media. Social media has extensively established the use of ICT. The question is on how to use AI to enhance verification of information that goes out. In court cases, the burden of proof must remain. However, we are looking at a future where someone might say, “We were able to collect certain information using drones”. We need to control this kind of using AI. What we input in AI determines the output. We must control how we use this tool. There are several important possibilities for us to consider. First is containment of news and news content. It is critical to know the kind of AI used to collect or produce certain news even before release. We will find ourselves in situations without proper proof if we do not contain this. News will already be widely circulated, potentially misleading Kenyans. Another issue is the control of associated onslaughts in sectors where we have embraced AI. We need a verification mechanism to confirm exactly how this technology generates credible, reliable, and verifiable information. We must have mechanisms to remove unverifiable information from circulation. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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