Gaza Crisis, Israel-Lebanon Border Crossfire, Biden AI Executive Order
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Internet and phone service in gaza went dark over the weekend.

but some accounts were getting out, and then P, R, producer describes the long hours in gaza as israel expands its military Operation.

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We have a description today of a weekend in gaza.

Israel says IT has launched a new phase in what IT calls a drive to eliminate haass. It's sent troops into the area that harass rules and intensified its week's long bombing campaign, israel says that attacked hundreds of homes, targets and densely populated areas. Palestinian health authorities say the death toll has reached at least eight thousand, including more than three thousand children. Fourteen hundred people in israel have been killed. On sunday, president joe biden called israel's prime minister, urging him to prioritize the protection of civilian life.

Now for part of the weekend, internet and phone service in gaza went out. But our colleague, Daniel aston, has been listening for one particular voice inside, and Daniel joins me here hyder Daniel. And i'll just mention, we're on a balcony in java and television, which is an hours drive north of gaza within missile range, but a world away. How did the communications blackout and gaza begin?

Well, our colleague, guana summer and I were on the phone with our producer in gaza, anas baa. This was friday evening.

Hi, honey. Are you able to hear us?

Yeah, hi. And just a man or two. Later, the line dropped. The main .

palestinian phone provider.

said the bomb. Bard's a of israel, cut off a generator in the main facility in gaza. Now, as in israeli defense, spokeswoman of, was this deliberate? Was this really trying to knock out the communications? SHE said, well, he wouldn't say. But the blackout lasted about thirty four hours. And this began just as israel announced its second stage of the war, this ground Operation and this intense .

bombing and the cut off off for the internet set off a scramble for people really around the world that seems to find out what their friends and where that relatives were experiencing inside. How did you try to learn always going on?

We were also in communicate with with our producer there. And in the middle of the blackout, he managed to get a signal. He went near the israeli border, which is risky, and he did so so he could be with a range of an israeli cell phone network.

And he got in touch, and he told me that he had gone that day on saturday to gaza city, which is the area now under heavy bombardment. He saw horrific scenes of palestinians who had tried to fleet to safety on foot, and they were killed in the streets, he says. Rescue crews he spoke to said they had no ability to communicate, to figure out where to respond.

This is not my, I cannot even realize what street is. I only can a small death. This body and the rebel, nothing the same, nothing is the same.

All the supermarket is, are in. There is no drinking water today. I spent four hours looking for just like twenty kilos of weed or flower in order to make my family some great and couldn't.

Yes, Daniel, everything is getting worse. Some and lose. I tried my best today.

You basic necessity Stever dwindling. And gaza, nearly three dozen trucks of food and water medicines from egypt make IT into gaza. But that's the most that's come in one day. It's not nearly enough.

Anas baby's description is one of the most powerful ones i've heard out of gaza, simply staggering to the border to try to get his voice out. I should mention that communications have mostly, not entirely, come back up and got. So what's happening now?

People are back online, but they just found out that some of the relatives were dead. And of course, now this morning, the assault continues. Our producer, anas baa, called me me to say he saw with his own eyes and israeli tank and bulldozer the eastern edge of gaza city on the main road that could mean israeli troops are closing in on the city.

Okay, tanks inside gaza and pier danel estridge here in television.

Now, troops from israel also spent much of yesterday trading fire with a militia just over its northern border.

Yeah, the hezbollah a controls southern lebanon. And just above is real on the map. And we witnessed the low level war fare with this real as R. T. Drove into israel els mountains last evening, we stopped at a village near the border, and we realized that look different than many israeli towns.

Virgin money? No, I missed the virgin money. Like a statue with the this village is called for suit and it's a catholic village centuries old with multiple statues of saints on the streets and is later, as you know, from your long experience in the region, there have been Christian groups woven among the arab populus around here for centuries.

Yeah, air Christians. How close is the fighting to that village?

Well, last night we could hear IT. And this is what IT sounded like as we walk through a court yard where kids were playing.

I heard, yeah, yeah, we heard boom like that every few minutes. Sometimes, more often than that, the israeli defense forces were out there in the hills, blasting back as hezbollah ghz fired weapons into israel.

So what are people in that village doing there? They're not evacuating.

No, they're not. Israeli authorities did tell people from many villages to evacuate within four kilometers of the border. We were told this village is four and half kilometers. And through our interpreter, I asked a resident named mike banana what IT is like to live there .

in that out and in the village is in a prison. That there the chase, the rockets are chasing you at any time anyone could be hit and wait. The rocket that could really kill quite a number of people, and that there's only five seconds to get to a shelter because we're so close to the border day. If you go up on a hill, you can see over the board.

Steve, I mean, you were pretty close to this. Could you get a sense of what the fighting is like out there in the dark?

Yeah, we talked with israeli officer who called IT a slow motion war hesba w you'll recall, is alike with amazon gaza. And many days, hesba is firing anti tank weapons into israel. If you shoot them high, the project, those can log in and go for miles.

Israeli forces respond with artillery, drones or rockets. People are being killed. Civilians are affected and effect. About the time we were driving around up, their rockets hit a different village than the one way visited.

Are the soldiers of their aware of the risk that this Sparks a White war?

They are trying not to be where told. Israeli soldiers are encouraged not to watch the news, not to follow social media. They might even get their phones taken away.

They are told not to be manipulated and just respond to the tactical chAllenge in front of them. Of course, lily, you and I do follow the news, were aware of the wider picture, and we know this is a dangerous game. Hesba seen as a proxy for iran, whose foreign ister made warnings on pr. The groups like hesba have their finger on the trigger of a wider war. So each side is aware of the pressure not to go too far.

And thanks.

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Now we will turn back to domestic news. President biden is taking some big steps today to try to rain in artificial intelligence.

The White house is worried it's moving so fast and has a lot of risks.

A I can can use data, your own personal data, to make social media even more addictive for you or your kids. That's not a good thing. AI systems can use your data to discriminate against the person of color who wants to buy a home. That's unacceptable.

That's White house chief of staff jeff science and piers deepa shiver room spoke him ahead of a new executive order being announced by the president today. And SHE joins us now he hair. So you've been talking to the White house about this for months. As they look at the problems and the opportunities of A I. What's the biggest development in this new executive order?

yes. So a lot of what has been done so far between the White house and tech companies has been voluntary. For example, the White house had to ask tech companies a couple months ago to expand their testing process for A I systems, which is called red teaming, and that makes sure that the AI doesn't discriminate or can't be hacked by people who want to use IT in negative ways.

But in this new executive order, the government is going one step further. They're trying to do this by providing some oversight of that red teaming process for bigger, high stakes, new AI systems. They want companies to do this testing, but they also want the results of that testing to be shared with the government. When I talk to the White house chief of staff, jeff science, he told me that companies can't be the only ones involved in the AI development process.

They can create their own homework. We will have, uh, resources in the federal government to pressure test and make sure that the companies are doing good testing, that the companies are doing all they can to feature the safety of these products.

In reality though, deepa, how can the government do that? Does this executive order have tea to hold A I developers accountable?

Yeah, that's a fair question. The White house is able to require that sharing process because they're invoking the defense production act, which was a korean war era law that expands presidential authorities, especially when IT comes to things around national security. And that law had kind of fAllen, by the way, side a little bit.

But since COVID, this administration and the last one have found new ways to use IT. Even with that, those some of the enforcement elements here are definitely still in the works. And ultimately, there's also room for congress to create laws that would regulate AI companies, particularly on privacy rules when IT comes to data. And while we know that legislators are meeting about IT, there hasn't really been any forward moving action on getting past anytime soon.

This is such cutting edged technology, and it's moving really quickly. How prepared is the government workforce for all these changes and its new watchdog? Girl.

I mean, yeah, to your point, this is a really expensive executive order that E O. Also calls on agencies across the federal government to set up new standards and safety programs for how A I can be used across the country in everything from creating new drugs to how I can help teachers and classrooms. And they're to try to develop a new system so that you can tell online if something you're looking at is created by A I essentially like a water marking system. So you'll know if true or of its legitimately from the government so that people don't get fooled by fake, fake tax flood colors or fake videos of president biden.

And all of that work will require an equipped workforce, right? The White house says we've got a lot of folks who are leading the charge on AI right now, but officials are being very clear that they also want more people to come in from everywhere in the country and around the world to work in the public sector on A I development. They need to expand their recruitment and that something this order is also trying to address by easing some immigration rules for .

a specialists and peers. Deep a shiver on thanks.

Thank you.

And that's a first for this monday, october thirty th. I'm Steve and scape in television .

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