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New White House AI Policies Introduce Government by AI

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> In a second, more concerning scenario, the emphasis on speed and American AI dominance could overshadow the safeguards. Agencies might rush deployment, overuse the waiver provisions for high-impact systems, and prioritize efficiency metrics over impact assessments. The DOGE team's reported use of AI for monitoring staff communications suggests this path is already being pursued in some corners of government. Should this approach predominate, public trust will likely erode further, potentially triggering a backlash that hampers legitimate AI adoption across all levels of government.

Why not just let AI do the voting in elections and setting the public's trust & sentiment towards AI? That way we will not need to worry about AI adoption being hampered.

Brilliant!

This is basically the central theme of one of Asimov's short stories. In the story a giant computer called the multivac selects one person that it deems statistically representative of the entire nation, asks them a couple of questions then uses their answers to "elect" the next president.

BallotProof can be used to automatically reject and/or generate ballots, and some of the creators went on to get hired at DOGE. Maybe we're on that path already?

https://github.com/DevrathIyer/ballotproof

A government by the AI for the AI, at least all those tech companies will be able to justify the money they've burned when they get awarded some sweet tax payer dollars.

> They must also maintain and update an AI use case inventory accessible to the public. This inventory must call attention to "high-impact" agency uses of AI, such as when the AI output "serves as a principal basis for decisions or actions that have a legal, material, binding, or significant effect on rights or safety."

> Certain AI use cases automatically qualify as high impact, such as the use of AI in "safety-critical functions of critical infrastructure" and "in healthcare contexts".

Cool, AI that will have a high impact on trivial things like "rights", "safety", and "healthcare", nothing can possibly go wrong with any of that.

Please consider attending the nationwide protests on 4/19/25.

Silence and inaction are basically immoral at this point. Voices, bodies, and action are REQUIRED.

Senator Chris Murphy lays out why we need to act now in this video posted a couple of hours ago: https://youtu.be/S_F1ECSSEH8

"In addition to the use of Signal, some DOGE staffers are bypassing other vetting processes and chains of custody for official government documents by working simultaneously out of Google Docs instead of circulating single copies of drafts, a source briefed by a government official said. “There's multiple people in one Google Doc editing things simultaneously,” the source said, referring to the online word processing software. That was partly how DOGE was working so quickly, the source added"

Outrageous!

What a stupid time to be alive.

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We're off-topic, but here's hoping the tariffs U-turn is the death knell of the Trump admin.. but heck, there's probably been hundreds of such events in his last term, and he's still freaking president. Even if he goes, then we'd end up with President JD Coachfucker.

But global players losing trust in the USA and pulling out of bonds, costing billionaires their shirts is hopefully a big enough "last straw".

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