Subcommittee on technology will come to order. The chair recognizes himself for an opening statement. Welcome to the subcommittee on communications and technology legislative hearing on legislating to secure americas wireless future. The security will consider a number of legislative proposals that address challenges from Spectrum Management to secure our nations Telecommunications Infrastructure. The proposals before the subcommittee today are hr 4462, study how to harness airway resource efficiency act or the share act which i introduced with my good friend Ranking Member latta which would require in cia to establish spectrum sharing strategy using advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence, automated frequency coordination and environmental sensing to facilitate more efficient spectrum sharing and used by the federal government. The bill would also require the fcc to report to congress on the feasibility of using existing sharing technologies on several important spectrum
Towards the west through much of the house cambodia also thailand it really is fine and john weve got more rain showers across into dhaka in bangladesh and then you see those rain showers into taipei and then look at this we have a Tropical Storm right now my tag and by monday it is expected to become a typhoon with winds sustained at about 120 kilometers an hour and it is heading very close up towards taiwan it will produce some very heavy flooding rains across that region and talking of flooding rains still no real easing of the monsoon across into n. D. I can see again some very active areas in the last few hours now there are some warnings in place as we go through sunday into monday this is from the India Met Department and actually its going to be across into go drought raja stan and again the north and the northeast the house state has really had some very heavy amounts of rain again of the last few days but the rains easing off across most central and Western Areas as we head i
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I want to thank everyone for being here today to examine the use of persuasive technologies on internet platforms. Each of our Witnesses Today has a great deal of expertise with respect to to algorithms and as well as in the more narrow context of engagement and persuasion and brings unique perspectives to these matters. Your participation in this hearing is appreciated. I con vain this hearing in part to inform legislation i am developing to give consumers the option to engage with the platform without having the experience shaped by algorithm use specific data. Internet platforms have transferred the way we interact and made positive ways on society in ways too numerous to counting. The vast majority of content is innocuous and at its best it is entertaining, educational and beneficial to the public. However, the powerful mechanisms behind these platforms also have the ability or at least the potential to influence the thoughts and behaviors of literally billions of people. As one re