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DOGE Threat: How Government Data Would Give an AI Company Extraordinary Power | U.S. executives have complained that China's centralized system gives its AI efforts access to extraordinary government data.


U.S. executives have complained that China's centralized system gives its AI efforts access to extraordinary government data.

While companies such as OpenAI, Google and xAI currently rely on information scraped from the public internet, nonpublic government repositories offer something much more valuable: verified records of actual human behavior across entire populations. It could track unintended consequences across different population segments, model complex societal systems with real-world validation and predict the impacts of proposed changes based on historical evidence. Even with personal identifiers removed, an AI system that analyzes patterns across millions of government records could enable surprising capabilities for making predictions and influencing behavior at the population level.

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