Chatbot interrupts Google executive during Australian Senate hearing on AI

Lucinda Longcroft, Google's Australian government affairs and public policy director, delivers an opening statement to a Senate committee hearing on adopting artificial intelligence when she is interrupted by a chatbot with a male voice and American accent.
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Later during the hearing, independent senator David Pocock asks Longcroft if 'AI is helping you on this call'. Longcroft says that while she has enabled Google's AI assistant, it was not helping her answer questions from the Senate committee.
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