Thank you all of you for being here. Your testimony is incredibly enlightening.
I'd like to take a little step back and get my mind around what exactly we're talking about when we talk about bots, when we talk about cyborgs and when we talk about artificial intelligence. I think we all have a bit of an idea of what we mean but could we look at specific examples?
For example, Ms. Bradshaw, you said that you interviewed some of these bot developers. What does that mean—developing a bot? What goes into that? You said something about how they would have principles, like either virality or relevance, and that you could put principles that support democracy into a bot when you're developing it. Can you explain what exactly that means?