White House To Unveil Sweeping AI Executive Order Next Week (washingtonpost.com) 26
The Biden administration on Monday is expected to unveil a long-anticipated artificial intelligence executive order, marking the U.S. government's most significant attempt to date to regulate the evolving technology that has sparked fear and hype around the world. Washington Post: The administration plans to release the order two days before government leaders, top Silicon Valley executives and civil society groups gather in Britain for an international summit focused on the potential risks that AI presents to society, according to four people familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the private plans.
The sweeping order would leverage the U.S. government's role as a top technology customer by requiring advanced AI models to undergo assessments before they can be used by federal workers, according to three people involved in discussions about the order. The lengthy action would ease barriers to immigration for highly skilled workers, an attempt to boost the United States' technological edge. Federal government agencies -- including the Defense Department, Energy Department and intelligence agencies -- would be required to run assessments to determine how they might incorporate AI into their agencies' work, with a focus on bolstering national cyber defenses.
The sweeping order would leverage the U.S. government's role as a top technology customer by requiring advanced AI models to undergo assessments before they can be used by federal workers, according to three people involved in discussions about the order. The lengthy action would ease barriers to immigration for highly skilled workers, an attempt to boost the United States' technological edge. Federal government agencies -- including the Defense Department, Energy Department and intelligence agencies -- would be required to run assessments to determine how they might incorporate AI into their agencies' work, with a focus on bolstering national cyber defenses.
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Don't you need a functioning legislature to make a law?
Alternatives to regulating AI -- recognizing irony (Score:2)
Lawrence Lessig wrote in Code 2.0 you can shape human behavior by at least four things:
* rules
* norms
* prices
* architecture
All are important in different ways and likely could be involved in shaping AI in a healthy way.
But that said, because AI is a technology produced using abundance and which can produce more abundance, humans need a perspective (and economics and politics) rooted in abundance to use it in healthy ways. Otherwise we risk creating all sorts of ironic situations, like I discuss here:
https:/ [pdfernhout.net]
AI assessments for everyone... (Score:5, Interesting)
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That's concerning. I wonder if we need rules creating a burden for AI or HR assessment disclosures, similar to how we have Credit reporting disclosures?
Any opinion on that or what it would look like?
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That's because HR is almost universally (I've met a few honorable exceptions) a bunch of lazy assholes that don't want to do the tedium of their job. It has been the case for decades now that you aren't likely to actually get your resume in front of a human being unless you tailor it to the keyword algorithm HR is using to screen resumes.
I am watching it happen at my non-profit right now, where they brought in some Type A asshole to serve as "Chief People Officer", and she is slowly trying her best (runni
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they brought in some Type A asshole
I agree with your assessment of HR folks, but I had a good one once a long time ago. So, I like you said, that was an honorable exception. However, this situation you are in sounds infuriating. Your "old way" sounded much better. Good luck. I hope she gets fired. Corporate culture is evil and insidious and I agree with your outlook on it's base nature.
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Dead on. Even if HR *isn't* outsource - a *lot* of them are, and if not the whole department, major chunks of it are.
Evidence: the *worst* job website in the world that I'm aware of is... USA jobs, the US federal government job site. About 10 years ago, I had an argument with someone from there: the computer-related jobs DO NOT TELL YOU what the job requirements are, or what the job actually is (programmer? dba? sysadmin? Who knows?!) - if you're lucky, the "sample questions" may give you a clue - but the j
What's wrong? (Score:2)
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Too bad for US (Score:2)
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History Repeats Itself Repeats Itself (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:History Repeats Itself Repeats Itself (Score:5, Interesting)
You've got quite the mix of lamenting regulation while simultaneously lamenting the appeal thereof. It makes me think you actually hate all regulation and just tossed in NN to avoid the probable down-mod. Not going to hit you line by line, I'll just ask one question: "What crypto regulation?"
Actually, I lied, I'm gonna call out another piece of BS:
E-Voting Systems: Meant to modernize voting, led to security vulnerabilities.
Wanna throw out more than zero evidence for this one? Spoiler: I've worked in elections in multiple jurisdictions for nearly 20 years so conspiracy theory nonsense is not going to fly. Do you want me to tediously walk you through the multiple levels of redundant checks and balances? Or do you have an actual example of some alleged security vulnerability you want to call to my attention?
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I actually would like to hear what you have to say about election machines, processes, etc. Not because I want to make some grand point or anything, I'm just interested. So if you have the time and don't mind I think that would be really cool.
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Also, lol, remember when nerds were reflexively suspicious of electronic voting? https://xkcd.com/463/ [xkcd.com] The original suspicions never changed (that software could easily, undetectably, manipulate the vote), just the party of the people who were bullish on electronic voting. Heck, the o
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The thing with Direct Electronic Record (no paper trail) voting machines that you should understand, they are tested the same as optical scan (paper trail) and the old school lever (no paper trail)
Every single possible combination of votes, via a "test stack" is run through the machines on test/certification day. Imagine two races (Governor / Mayor) with two declared candidates. That’s at least eight test votes (more if your State allows write-ins)
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You've got quite the mix of lamenting regulation
His post was absolutely excellent and pointed out some great and, at least to my value-system, completely valid examples. I get the feeling from the tone of your writing that his loud ringing of the "goverment corrupts what it touches, lies, and denies us the benefit of helpful tech" bell annoyed you. This type of thing typically annoys folks who think of themselves as pro-big-government and believe in big-government, centralized, authoritarian, solutions. Is that why you tried to throw some shade or do I h
Genie (Score:2)
The genie is out of the bottle -you cannot control it.
You can only control how you (the government) interact with it.
Be careful what you ask for -it will do what you ask (not what you meant). You may not like the results.
would censorship (Score:1)
Would censorship by any other name smell as sweet? For this administration all censorship is sweet.
Look to this order to censor AI to not provide "misinformation" or "disinformation" as defined by the administration. For example, no misgendering, no deadnaming, no lab leaks, no hunter laptop. No mention of Tainanmen Square, no caricatures of Chairman Xi.
Get the best services (Score:1)