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Trump’s Anti-Bias AI Order Is Just More Bias
The Trump administration says it wants AI models free from ideological bias, as it pressures their developers to reflect the president’s worldview.
We get a clue about this in the very next paragraph, which instructs the Department of Commerce to look at the Biden AI rules and “eliminate references to misinformation, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and climate change.” (Weird uppercase as written in the published plan.) If companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google decide to try minimizing racial bias in their LLMs, or make a conscious choice to ensure the models’ responses reflect the dangers of climate change, the First Amendment presumably protects those decisions as exercising the “freedom of speech and expression” touted in the AI Action Plan. “The details and implementation plan for this executive order remain unclear,” he writes, “but it will create significant financial incentives for the Big Tech companies … to ensure their AI chatbots do not produce speech that would upset the Trump administration.” In a statement to me, he said, “Republicans want to use the power of the government to make ChatGPT sound like Fox & Friends.”
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