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America wants AI that doesn't care about misinformation, DEI, and climate change (lemmy.ca)
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The Trump administration recently published "America's AI Action Plan". One of the first policy actions from the document is to eliminate references to misinformation, diversity, equity, inclusion, and climate change from the NIST's AI Risk Framework.

Lacking any sense of irony, the very next point states LLM developers should ensure their systems are "objective and free from top-down ideological bias".

Par for the course for Trump and his cronies, but the world should know what kind of AI the US wants to build.

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[+] [S] -19 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I did not use the word "law". So you're arguing that EO's have no actual effect? That is blatantly false: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trumps-dei-purge-is-hitting-nasa-hard/

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I'm arguing that you're intentionally trying to play semantics with phrasing and claim it doesn't matter, when it absolutely does, and everyone in here is explaining to you why. That's all.

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  • [+] [S] -9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Okay. My argument is that the semantics don't matter because what matters is policy.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    And since you did use the word "policy", I did mention that EO's aren't laws. It's a memo. He has no control via EOnof anyone except the people in his purview. Not private companies, not researches, not law, not state governments.

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  • [–] [S] -3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You're saying that EO's are not policy?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    EO's are policy insofar as they can affect the Executive Branch and what it controls, and nothing else. The history of the use is mainly for "the spirit" of something, but only in the past 20 years or so has been weaponized to be used for trying to attempt to guide actual policy. Never in the way Trump has tried to use them, which is "law by decree".

    The joke is they know it's bullshit and meaningless. This all happened in his first term. 220 total, 157 shot down in court, 27 revoked. It's an office memo at best. Biden even tried to do thenstudent debt cancellation through EO, and it got shot down in court.

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