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Kamala Follows “AI” and “Culture” Gaffes With Another on Climate Change

&NewLine;<p>Just after recently swallowing her foot with &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;word salad” comments on culture and artificial intelligence&comma; VP Kamala Harris makes another gaffe&comma; this time on climate change&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The Veep&&num;8217&semi;s &&num;8220&semi;gaffe-filled&&num;8221&semi; week came to a close on Friday when she appeared to mistakenly call for lowering the population as a way to provide cleaner air and drinking water&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;When we invest in clean energy and electric vehicles and reduce population&comma; more of our children can breathe clean air and drink clean water&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Harris told a crowd at Coppin State University in Baltimore&comma; Maryland&comma; in a speech centered on the Inflation Reduction Act&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Harris meant to say &&num;8220&semi;pollution&comma;&&num;8221&semi; and her office said the vice president misspoke&period; The&nbsp&semi;official transcript&nbsp&semi;of the event reflects that Harris meant to say that electric vehicles and clean energy would &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;reduce pollution&period;”&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Her late gaffe came just days after Harris attempted to explain artificial intelligence at a roundtable of labor and civil rights leaders&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;I think the first part of this issue that should be articulated is AI is kind of a fancy thing&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Harris said at the Wednesday event&period; &&num;8220&semi;First of all&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s two letters&period; It means artificial intelligence&comma; but ultimately what it is&comma; is it&&num;8217&semi;s about machine learning&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;And so&comma; the machine is taught — and part of the issue here is what information is going into the machine that will then determine — and we can predict then&comma; if we think about what information is going in&comma; what then will be produced in terms of decisions and opinions that may be made through that process&comma;&&num;8221&semi; she added&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>A day earlier&comma;&nbsp&semi;she was ridiculed&nbsp&semi;for other comments during a roundtable discussion on transportation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;This issue of transportation is fundamentally about just making sure that people have the ability to get where they need to go&excl; It&&num;8217&semi;s that basic&comma;&&num;8221&semi; she said&period; And just prior to that&comma; she seemed unable to define culture during an important event for African Americans in New Orleans&comma; where she stated&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Well&comma; I think culture is — it is a reflection of our moment in our time&comma; right&quest; And — and present culture is the way we express how we’re feeling about the moment&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Lately&comma; Harris seems to be as gaffe-prone as her boss&comma; President Joe Biden&comma; but he is 80 years old&comma; at 58&comma; what’s her excuse&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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