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File Name | S22-Policy-Stoa-25-NEG-RoboCalls.docx |
File Size | 58.93 KB |
Date added | November 15, 2021 |
Category | Policy (Stoa) |
Author | Vance Trefethen |
Resolved: The United States federal government substantially reform the use of Artificial Intelligence technology
Case Summary: The AFF plan requires the telecom companies to put anti-robo call AI software into phone service so that consumers automatically get protection against junk and spam robocalls. AFF’s expert is Dawn Song at Univ. California-Berkely. We have some quotes from her study where she admits her solution isn’t ready yet and another guy who says it won’t work anyway.
Important points:
1) STIR/SHAKEN is the Status Quo. These are confusing acronyms that refer to a system already rolled out in the US to automatically stop robocalls. This will be confusing because AFF will read cards from TNS, the company that made S/S, regarding how bad it is. But TNS is not opposed to their own product! S/S was mandated by the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) for all telecoms in the USA as of 30 June 2021. It requires calls to have a layer of authentication that robocalls don’t have. If a call comes in and it doesn’t have that authentication, you will see a message that says “Spam Risk” on your phone, so you can ignore it. It requires NOTHING for the user to do to activate.
2) AFF will claim that Stir/Shaken will fail, using older evidence. This brief updates with 2021 evidence that says S/S is working and that, since it just got implemented, we have to give it time to develop. Also, this brief proves that S/S will get better over time as new technology is added to it.
3) AFF’s “solution” is to forget S/S/ and use an AI system proposed in a paper written by Ms. Dawn Song and others at a college in China and U. California-Berkeley in 2018. Couple of problems with Ms. Song and her paper:
i) She admits in the paper that her method isn’t ready yet, and needs more study
ii) She admits her method can’t handle “spoofing,” which STIR/SHAKEN can
iii) Her method has to be installed on the end user’s phones. It is NOT installed by the telecoms on their servers, contrary to the entire purpose of the Affirmative’s plan. They were supposed to be making it easier for consumers to be protected, but the D. Song plan makes it worse.