Under Trump, AI Scientists Are Told to Remove 'Ideological Bias' From Powerful Models

[highplainsdem]

Source: Wired

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued new instructions to scientists that partner with the US Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute (AISI) that eliminate mention of “AI safety,” “responsible AI,” and “AI fairness” in the skills it expects of members and introduces a request to prioritize “reducing ideological bias, to enable human flourishing and economic competitiveness.”

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“The Trump administration has removed safety, fairness, misinformation, and responsibility as things it values for AI, which I think speaks for itself,” says one researcher at an organization working with the AI Safety Institute, who asked not to be named for fear of reprisal.

The researcher believes that ignoring these issues could harm regular users by possibly allowing algorithms that discriminate based on income or other demographics to go unchecked. “Unless you're a tech billionaire, this is going to lead to a worse future for you and the people you care about. Expect AI to be unfair, discriminatory, unsafe, and deployed irresponsibly,” the researcher claims.

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Speaking at the AI Action Summit in Paris in February, vice president JD Vance said that the US government will prioritize American competitiveness in the race to develop and benefit from AI. “The AI future is not going to be won by hand-wringing about safety,” Vance told attendees from around the world. The US delegation to the event did not include anyone from the AI Safety Institute.

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Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/ai-safety-institute-new-directive-america-first/

[Irish_Dem]

1. Greed, corruption, crime, hatred. The new American value system.

[dgauss]

2. I've long worried about search engines like Google becoming politically corrupted.

People have such a reliance on search engines for trying to understand things and tend to believe whatever pops up.

Can you think of a better way to control what people think and believe than to control the results of google searches? A government truly committed to propaganda would understand this and see such control as incredibly powerful. AI algorithms will make crafting skewed search outcomes more and more easy.

I think we will be dealing with this sometime in our near future.

(My dystopian thought for the day...)

[Initech]

3. Do these idiots not know that bias works both ways?

Also, what could possibly go wrong?

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

4. WHAT ideological bias?

Have 90% of CEOs been replaced by non straight, non white men? Really?

I have a feeling that were I to Google "CEOs" I'd be hard pressed to find a single name that wasn't clearly a white male.

[SomewhereInTheMiddle]

9. Google CEO? Sundar Pichai. Not exactly a white name. But I get your point.

[Karasu]

5. Otherwise known as divorced from reality, which has a well-known "liberal bias."

[LudwigPastorius]

6. Idiot!

You want ideological bias built into AI, namely the bias that all human beings are valuable and worthy of life and freedom.

You take that away and you get..."imagine a boot stepping on a human face - forever".

[Norrrm]

7. In a war of strategy/warfighting/competing AIs, wouldn't one side have an advantage if it knew the limitations of the ot

In a war of strategy/warfighting/competing AIs, wouldn't one side have an advantage if it knew the limitations of the other side??

[Phoenix61]

8. The list of individuals' obituaries I'd like to read grows by leaps and bounds.

I’m a peaceful person but seems I have limits.

[intrepidity]

10. Oh I hope that bites them in the ass hard

Pathetic idiots.

Didn't Elon leave OpenAI over safety concerns? Or am I misremembering.