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Trump Signs Executive Order on Developing AI 'Free From Ideological Bias' 42

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on AI Thursday that will revoke past government policies his order says "act as barriers to American AI innovation." From a report: To maintain global leadership in AI technology, "we must develop AI systems that are free from ideological bias or engineered social agendas," Trump's order says. The new order doesn't name which existing policies are hindering AI development but sets out to track down and review "all policies, directives, regulations, orders, and other actions taken" as a result of former President Joe Biden's sweeping AI executive order of 2023, which Trump rescinded Monday.

Any of those Biden-era actions must be suspended if they don't fit Trump's new directive that AI should "promote human flourishing, economic competitiveness, and national security." Last year, the Biden administration issued a policy directive that said U.S. federal agencies must show their artificial intelligence tools aren't harming the public, or stop using them. Trump's order directs the White House to revise and reissue those directives, which affect how agencies acquire AI tools and use them.

Trump Signs Executive Order on Developing AI 'Free From Ideological Bias'

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  • I hear echoes⦠(Score:2, Interesting)

    by rgbe ( 310525 )

    echoes of Elon Musk.

    • by bjoast ( 1310293 )

      promote human flourishing, economic competitiveness, and national security

      Sounds like an ideological bias to me.

    • by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

      The same thing will happen too. Musk's AI, Grok, turned out quote progressive. It even called out Musk for being a dick to his trans daughter, and affirmed transgender identities and rights.

      What Trump probably means is he wants AIs to be conservative, and anything that doesn't align with US Republican ideology is "bias".

  • ... that AI should "promote ... "

    Your failure to meet this standard will be calculated by the random draw of a bribe from a rotating barrel.

  • They must edit things so Jewish Space Lasers and Felon 47 can influence the LLMs. ;)

  • It's just that now the ideological bias will put profit, power and glory before all else. But I guess it's unclear that any existing efforts were sincerely doing any differently, so maybe this will actually change nothing.

  • That data is even worse than Wikipedia.

  • Anyone claiming to be "unbiased" is always lying. Right now though, LLMs have a larger (pun intended) BS problem. Creating a system for automating real, reliable, meta-analytical research would be incredibly worthwhile.
  • by sinkskinkshrieks ( 6952954 ) on Friday January 24, 2025 @03:49AM (#65114489)
    Q. How many racist billionaires does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

    A0. 0 because they don't do manual labor.
    A1. 1 because they need to design it to be WiFi-enabled to download a monthly license and support contract, and then refuse to allow it to turn on once it's over 7 years old.
    A2. 1 because A0 and one to complain that workers make too much money and are communists for wanting healthcare outcomes better than Costa Rica.
    • You missed the correct answer:
      A3. All of them, because by the time one gets half screwed in it's time for a regime change which must start with unscrewing the lightbulb regardless of whether it was being correctly screwed, before restarting the process again.

    • Good lord. I could care less about Elon musk other than thinking SpaceX is cool, but this nazi salute thing has gotten way too far out of control. You can see all of the Trump/Republican political opponents working overtime to convince themselves of their own false narrative in real time. I can’t believe I have to defend the guy (or call out the idiots perhaps). Exactly what benefit or reason would he have for such a gesture in the forum and context he did it in? None. I say this as someone who, if th
  • ... let elon design it eh?

  • If we in the West don't develop AI, others will. It is critical that we are better than opposition in this area, much as with nukes we needed to maintain a credible threat of annihilation. If we hold back on AI, China won't, and will get ahead of us. And whereas mutual annihilation presented a good motivation for not using nukes, there is no such motivation with AI, nor is there the same kind of horror or opposition to AI that we saw with nuclear. Nor does it require a government spending billions and trill

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