In a 12-3 vote, the Los Angeles City Council passed a $12.7 billion city budget for the 2024-25 fiscal year on Thursday. Craig Fiegener reports from the KNX News City Hall Bureau.

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In a 12-3 vote, the Los Angeles City Council passed a $12.7 billion city budget for the 2024-25 fiscal year on Thursday. Craig Fiegener reports from the KNX News City Hall Bureau.
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For the first time in the history of the country, a U.S. Surgeon General has declared a public health crisis over gun violence.

Dr. Vivek Murthy, in making issuing the public health notice, argued that gun violence has become pervasive in American society.

KNX News spoke with Dr. Garen Wintemute, director of the Violence Prevention Research Program at the UC Davis Medical School.  He says the problem is pretty simple ... there are just way too many guns available right now.

Surgeon General Murthy called for taking politics out of the gun control debate ... and instead treat it like a public health issue.  Dr. Wintemute couldn't agree more.

Surgeon General Murthy is calling for a ban on automatic rifles ... universal background checks for purchasing guns ... and passing laws that would restrict their use in public spaces and penalize people who fail to safely store their weapons.

For the first time in the history of the country, a U.S. Surgeon General has declared a public health crisis over gun violence.
Dr. Vivek Murthy, in making issuing the public health notice, argued that gun violence has become pervasive in American society.
KNX News spoke with Dr. Garen Wintemute, director of the Violence Prevention Research Program at the UC Davis Medical School.  He says the problem is pretty simple ... there are just way too many guns available right now.
Surgeon General Murthy called for taking politics out of the gun control debate ... and instead treat it like a public health issue.  Dr. Wintemute couldn't agree more.
Surgeon General Murthy is calling for a ban on automatic rifles ... universal background checks for purchasing guns ... and passing laws that would restrict their use in public spaces and penalize people who fail to safely store their weapons.

U.S. Surgeon General declares a public health crisis ... over an epidemic of gun violence

Mira Murati is the chief technology officer of OpenAI ... that's the company designing and deploying early generative artificial intelligence programs like ChatGPT. 

She ruffled a lot of feathers in the creative industries when she made these comments at a recent forum at Dartmouth ... when asked if AI programs will eventually replace human creative jobs.

For writers and actors in Hollywood, this is exactly the fear they had when they fought so hard to win certain AI protections during last year's strikes.  

KNX News spoke to writer, producer, director and actor Justine Bateman ... who also holds a bachelors degree in computer science ... to get her reaction to Murati's cavalier dismissal of creative jobs ... and her insistence that AI and human creators were working collaboratively.

She's warning creative workers in the entertainment industry to brace themselves for more AI intrusions.

Bateman believes it's absolutely the intention of Hollywood studios to replace human creative jobs with AI models.

For her part, OpenAI's Mira Murati has insisted during several media appearances that they're designing AI tools to HELP and collaborate with human workers, not REPLACE them.

Mira Murati is the chief technology officer of OpenAI ... that's the company designing and deploying early generative artificial intelligence programs like ChatGPT. 
She ruffled a lot of feathers in the creative industries when she made these comments at a recent forum at Dartmouth ... when asked if AI programs will eventually replace human creative jobs.
For writers and actors in Hollywood, this is exactly the fear they had when they fought so hard to win certain AI protections during last year's strikes.  
KNX News spoke to writer, producer, director and actor Justine Bateman ... who also holds a bachelors degree in computer science ... to get her reaction to Murati's cavalier dismissal of creative jobs ... and her insistence that AI and human creators were working collaboratively.
She's warning creative workers in the entertainment industry to brace themselves for more AI intrusions.
Bateman believes it's absolutely the intention of Hollywood studios to replace human creative jobs with AI models.
For her part, OpenAI's Mira Murati has insisted during several media appearances that they're designing AI tools to HELP and collaborate with human workers, not REPLACE them.

Justine Bateman slams OpenAI exec's dismissal of human creator jobs, warns that AI is coming for Hollywood

18 months after storm swells damaged the Ventura Pier to the point it had to be closed it will re-open this weekend.

KNX News' Pete Demetriou reports residents, new and old, are eager to see it happen.

18 months after storm swells damaged the Ventura Pier to the point it had to be closed it will re-open this weekend.
KNX News' Pete Demetriou reports residents, new and old, are eager to see it happen.

L.A. City Council passes $12.8B proposed budget

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