White House Prepares Executive Order Targeting 'Woke AI'(wsj.com)
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White House Prepares Executive Order Targeting 'Woke AI'
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/white-house-prepares-executive-order-targeting-woke-ai-e68e8e24
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At some point (possibly already?), having no federal contracts will be a massive competitive advantage.
Electing morons has some bad consequences. This would make US LLMs not much better than Chinese ones when it comes to censorship.
Let’s do the opposite: let’s order the executive to be politically neutral instead. Or would thay fail due to lack of natural intelligence?
AI labs already do everything they can to have politically neutral responses. It turns out that when you pre-train on all the content ever produced by humanity and post-train on real people's preferences, the result is extremely liberal. That's been my experience at least. It's a little counterintuitive, and there are definitely corner cases where misaligned AI becomes more conservative, hateful, or authoritarian, but that's the trend overall. I can all but guarantee that every single major AI product out there would be even more liberal with trust and safety interventions turned off.
> conservative, hateful ... authoritarian
sums it up nicely
sums it up nicely
Remember when the same people just a few weeks ago wanted to block any state from enforcing any law or regulation affecting "artificial intelligence models," "artificial intelligence systems," or "automated decision systems" for 10 years?
I 'member.
I 'member.
This would be a distaster, and is totally predictable.
Is AI free speech?
Yeah.
I don't want it to be but AI is going to be the mediator of all human communication and access to information and the generator of all cultural expression soon so it kind of has to be. Otherwise "free speech" is just what people say to one another face to face.
I don't want it to be but AI is going to be the mediator of all human communication and access to information and the generator of all cultural expression soon so it kind of has to be. Otherwise "free speech" is just what people say to one another face to face.
> the generator of all cultural expression soon
I sincerely hope that is not the case.
I sincerely hope that is not the case.
Yeah this administration is definitely all-in on free speech. They need to be called out on this shit.
I'm beginning to think that "woke" is code for not racist enough.
I'm beginning to think that "woke" is code for not racist enough.
Beginning?
> I'm beginning to think that "woke" is code for not racist enough.
Or not misogynist enough, or basically anything involving empathy and human decency.
Or not misogynist enough, or basically anything involving empathy and human decency.
RIP Gemma
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Why doesn't anyone get upset by the fact that the use of Executive Orders has been massively abused by both parties and needs to be reigned in my Congress? It was the intent of the founders that Congress make the laws and The Executive carries them out. An executive order should be limited to how to do what Congress has mandated/authorized, not to effectively rule by edict because Congress passed legislation that allows absurdly wide latitude for The Executive to make orders (or agencies to make regulations).
As for whatever this EO is supposed to be about: Trump can't spell "AI" so I can't take his opinions on this field seriously.
As for whatever this EO is supposed to be about: Trump can't spell "AI" so I can't take his opinions on this field seriously.
Because Republicans do not care about the checks and balances of the Constitution. They only care about their own power and not the future for the next generations.
> Why doesn't anyone get upset by the fact that the use of Executive Orders has been massively abused by both parties
Because all you can do in a two-party system is vote in the other EO abuser.
Because all you can do in a two-party system is vote in the other EO abuser.
"Abused by both parties" is not a valid argument. Republican's use of EO are blatantly unconstitutional and they gloat about how it's unconstitutional, whereas usually Democrats' use of EO are deliberately designed to be within the rule of law or at least arguable as to whether or not it's legal. Republicans are pushing through whatever EO they want right now because they have a majority in Congress, which is at a historic level of dysfunction and corruption and will let the executive branch rule like a king.
I think the answer is probably that life is easy enough. Directly or indirectly, as a lord optimizing for just barely good enough will leave you in power. Until an invader shows up.
Scary stuff.
This is why we need LLMs from many different countries. I use Deepseek for any non-China political type question as using a Western One can't be relied upon as a rule.