Joe Biden Wants US Government Algorithms Tested for Potential Harm Against Citizens
Joe Biden Wants US Government Algorithms Tested for Potential Harm Against Citizens
Draft rules from the White House would require federal agencies to assess AI systems currently in use in law enforcement, health care, and other areas—and to shut down any algorithms doing harm.
Highlights: The White House issued draft rules today that would require federal agencies to evaluate and constantly monitor algorithms used in health care, law enforcement, and housing for potential discrimination or other harmful effects on human rights.
Once in effect, the rules could force changes in US government activity dependent on AI, such as the FBI’s use of face recognition technology, which has been criticized for not taking steps called for by Congress to protect civil liberties. The new rules would require government agencies to assess existing algorithms by August 2024 and stop using any that don’t comply.
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I mean that broadly seems like a good thing. Execution is important, but on paper this seems like the kind of forward thinking policy we need
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Quite frankly it didn't put enough restrictions on the various "national security" agencies, and so while it may help to stem the tide of irresponsible usage by many of the lesser-impact agencies, it doesn't do the same for the agencies that we know will be the worst offenders (and have been the worst offenders).
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No it is not a good thing. You can't handwave the execution of the thing. Not given the history of even just this man not to speak of the federal government, all the alphabet agencies and local police.
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“If the benefits do not meaningfully outweigh the risks, agencies should not use the AI,” the memo says. But the draft memo carves out an exemption for models that deal with national security and allows agencies to effectively issue themselves waivers if ending use of an AI model “would create an unacceptable impediment to critical agency operations.”
This tells me that nothing is going to change if people can just say their algoriths would make them too inefficient. Great sentiment but this loophole will make it useless.
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This seems to me like an exception that would realistically only apply to the CIA, NSA, and sometimes the FBI. I doubt the Department of Housing and Urban Development will get a pass. Overall seems like a good change in a good direction.
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Folksy narrator: "Turns out, the U.S. government can not operate without racism."
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Great sentiment but
It's not a "great sentiment" - it's essentially just more of the same liberal "let's pretend we care by doing something completely ineffective" posturing and little else.
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Democrats are so fucking naive. They actually think that a system of permission slips is sufficient to protect us from the singularity.
OpenAI’s original mission, before they forgot it, was the only workable method: distribute the AI far and wide to establish a multipolar ecosystem.
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Biden does a pandering
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Hell fucking yea. Who is this Biden guy?
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Another W from Biden and extreme leftist will still say he did nothing. 😔
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Nah, if this sticks, my extreme leftist ass will sing his praises.
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He did something: add national security loopholes
The worst possible offenders aren't really being reined in by this executive order.
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Dark Brandon is Awake.
I wish he was around more often than Sleepy Joe. 😔
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Sleepy Joe is just a manufactured slur by a demented idiot supported only by second-long video clips of Biden between going to meetings and making changes.
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I swear to god there has to be an entire chapter in Gödel Escher Bach about how this is literally impossible.
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Wow it's been years since I read GEB..
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You’re never going to be able to formally prove anything as nebulous as “harm” full stop, so this isn’t a very convincing argument imo.
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Achilles: /facepalm
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Is it already too late for us? Does anyone truly believe that will be enough to protect us?
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Sent to my state representative. Thanks!
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This isn't a comic book. Its good policy.
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Properly structured oversight is also good policy. Unfortunately, right now the big AI companies and the government are having conversations about policy behind closed doors.
Do we need a citizen's Data and AI Advocacy group? Does this exist already?
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Cool, now do the courts, cops, and legal code.
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Does Joe Biden wipe himself ?
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Interesting. I want algorithms to warn us about potential harms by Joe Biden. What if we were able to fund an AI run by the GAO that can tell us when government decisions make the majority of our lives worse?
It's a long way off and might be a bad idea to trust an AI outright, but I just wish we had a more data informed government.
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You might be interested in data.gov. The Obama admin kicked of the Government Open Data Initiative to provide transparency in government. Agencies have been given a means to publish their data, which US taxes pay for. You'd be surprised what's in there. It's not an algorithm, but you could certainly build one from that if you wanted to.
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As long as he doesn't start getting in the way of open source algorithms were fine.
Delay llama 3 and I'm voting for whoever runs against Biden. No exceptions, I will become a single issue voter and this will be my issue.
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I don't think you have anything to worry about. All this requires is that any models used by the government are tested for bias. Which is a good thing.
Go ask an early generation ai image generator to make pictures of people cleaning and it will give you a bunch of pictures of women. There are all sorts of examples of racial, sex, and religious biases in the models because of the data they were trained on.
Requiring the executive agencies to test for bias is a good thing.
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How is the government going to get in the way of global, open-source development, regardless of what nonsense shit is passed?
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This will entrench big tech in federal government, but I'm not too worried about limits on the government.
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Yeah, the only concern I have so far is the leverage of the defense powers act to require foundational model development to sent red team results to the Fed. That's a hint that will enable them to ban release of models in the future.
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Joe Biden probably has no idea what most of those words mean, let's be honest here. He's only the president because the only other option we were given was worse.
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I don't want somebody that knows and understands everything. I want somebody that surround themselves with people that collectively know and understand, and can then explain it to him like he's an octogenarian.
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Exactly. The best president is the one who consults with others on essentially everything. Even if they are an expert in an area, Still get second opinions. Obviously that is time permitting, They still need to be knowledgeable enough to react quickly when necessary.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Trump's policy to always be the smartest person in the room? That would explain some things...
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So what? The biggest part of picking a President is the people they're going to put in their cabinet and surround themselves with. That's the problem with Trump. He's going to fill the presidency with a bunch of maga ass hats, on top of doing his own damage.
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Just because some of us understand this issue better than him it doesn't mean that we should expect him to understand everything at the same level as if he worked in the area.. it's impossible he can't be an expert economist, computer scientist, anthropologist, chemist, biologist, etc... rolled into one.
For the record I don't think he is a great president.
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He's only the president because the only other option we were given was worse.
Not if you ask the freaks in /r/neoliberal. They think he's the best president ever and that his only problem is a bad PR team lmao
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He’s absolutely fine, and the vast majority of complaints I’ve seen fundamentally misunderstand the limits of the Presidency and why an experienced politician has rightful reasons to be cautious about the consequences of radical actions. Populists love to fill your head up with great ideas, but gloss over or ignore the consequences. Some end up lying about it others aren’t effective. Experienced politicians aren’t flashy but get things done step by step.
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