Highlights: The White House issued draft rules today that would require federal agencies to evaluate and constantly monitor algorithms used in health care, law enforcement, and housing for potential discrimination or other harmful effects on human rights.

Once in effect, the rules could force changes in US government activity dependent on AI, such as the FBI’s use of face recognition technology, which has been criticized for not taking steps called for by Congress to protect civil liberties. The new rules would require government agencies to assess existing algorithms by August 2024 and stop using any that don’t comply.

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Joe Biden probably has no idea what most of those words mean, let’s be honest here. He’s only the president because the only other option we were given was worse.

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I don’t want somebody that knows and understands everything. I want somebody that surround themselves with people that collectively know and understand, and can then explain it to him like he’s an octogenarian.

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Exactly. The best president is the one who consults with others on essentially everything. Even if they are an expert in an area, Still get second opinions. Obviously that is time permitting, They still need to be knowledgeable enough to react quickly when necessary.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t Trump’s policy to always be the smartest person in the room? That would explain some things…

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Just because some of us understand this issue better than him it doesn’t mean that we should expect him to understand everything at the same level as if he worked in the area… it’s impossible he can’t be an expert economist, computer scientist, anthropologist, chemist, biologist, etc… rolled into one.

For the record I don’t think he is a great president.

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You cannot judge how great a President was until long after they are out of office. Good things usually take time. Bad things can be immediate.

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Yea. But he doesn’t seem to have a vision. I don’t think corruption is great and bidenomics is just bullshit. I am not saying he is the worst ever just that it’s not very good.

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So what? The biggest part of picking a President is the people they’re going to put in their cabinet and surround themselves with. That’s the problem with Trump. He’s going to fill the presidency with a bunch of maga ass hats, on top of doing his own damage.

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You’re wrong, but you’re actually right.

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I’m only “wrong” because others are reading something other than what I said. I’m gratified that at least one person understood though.

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No, people are responding to what you said. Maybe what you wrote doesn’t impart your meaning as well as you thought it does.

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He’s only the president because the only other option we were given was worse.

Not if you ask the freaks in /r/neoliberal. They think he’s the best president ever and that his only problem is a bad PR team lmao

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He’s absolutely fine, and the vast majority of complaints I’ve seen fundamentally misunderstand the limits of the Presidency and why an experienced politician has rightful reasons to be cautious about the consequences of radical actions. Populists love to fill your head up with great ideas, but gloss over or ignore the consequences. Some end up lying about it others aren’t effective. Experienced politicians aren’t flashy but get things done step by step.

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He’s absolutely fine if you don’t care about unconditional support for a genocidal apartheid state or the right to strike. Those are both cases where doing literally nothing would have been better than what he personally did.

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I mean that broadly seems like a good thing. Execution is important, but on paper this seems like the kind of forward thinking policy we need

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Quite frankly it didn’t put enough restrictions on the various “national security” agencies, and so while it may help to stem the tide of irresponsible usage by many of the lesser-impact agencies, it doesn’t do the same for the agencies that we know will be the worst offenders (and have been the worst offenders).

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I really don’t understand the downvotes on this comment…

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NSA bots downvoting.

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As long as he doesn’t start getting in the way of open source algorithms were fine.

Delay llama 3 and I’m voting for whoever runs against Biden. No exceptions, I will become a single issue voter and this will be my issue.

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I don’t think you have anything to worry about. All this requires is that any models used by the government are tested for bias. Which is a good thing.

Go ask an early generation ai image generator to make pictures of people cleaning and it will give you a bunch of pictures of women. There are all sorts of examples of racial, sex, and religious biases in the models because of the data they were trained on.

Requiring the executive agencies to test for bias is a good thing.

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Pretty dumb dawg. The people running against him want christofascism. Not becoming the Christian version of Iran is my single issue.

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Nope, this is the most important issue for me. It overrides all other concerns.

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18 points

Why is it the most important issue for you?

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I sure hope you are a strawman account because you are an idiot if this is who you are.

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Kbin, what do you expect.

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Pretty darn easily given that the United States controls Nvidia

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The same way they do it with crypto bullshit I’d imagine. Prosecute people for export.

Edit: my bad. Daddy government can only do good. That’s why we support Israel.

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This will entrench big tech in federal government, but I’m not too worried about limits on the government.

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Yeah, the only concern I have so far is the leverage of the defense powers act to require foundational model development to sent red team results to the Fed. That’s a hint that will enable them to ban release of models in the future.

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Hell fucking yea. Who is this Biden guy?

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Nah, if this sticks, my extreme leftist ass will sing his praises.

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Extremes hate everything, so it doesn’t really matter what they think.

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Extreme leftists share the equivalent brain power as Trump supporters

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He did something: add national security loopholes

The worst possible offenders aren’t really being reined in by this executive order.

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As an extreme leftist, this rings hollow.

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A lot of my leftist friends will still let the bad be the enemy of any sort of good whatsoever it seems. It’s exhausting as a leftist when you can never be outraged enough for other leftists.

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Dark Brandon is Awake.

I wish he was around more often than Sleepy Joe. 😔

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Sleepy Joe is just a manufactured slur by a demented idiot supported only by second-long video clips of Biden between going to meetings and making changes.

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