The NIST's new directive to AI Safety Institute partners scrubs mentions of “AI safety” and “AI fairness” and prioritizes “reducing ideological bias” in models
A directive from the National Institute of Standards and Technology eliminates mention of “AI safety” and “AI fairness.”
Wired Will Knight
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@mackaracka
@mackaracka
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Previously that agreement encouraged researchers to contribute technical work that could help identify & fix discriminatory model behavior related to gender/race/age/wealth inequality. Such biases can directly affect end users,harm minorities, econ disadvantaged groups — www.w…
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@claesdevreese
Claes de Vreese
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🚨 The Trump administration has removed safety, fairness, misinformation, and responsibility as things it values for AI. — Reckless. Add Vance to tbe mix: “The AI future is not going to be won by hand-wringing about safety” — Reckless. — www.wired.com/story/ai-saf...
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@bildoperationen
Roland Meyer
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«‹The Trump administration has removed safety, fairness, misinformation, and responsibility as things it values for AI, which I think speaks for itself,› says one researcher ...» — There's no AI without bias. What they want is unsafety, unfairness, misinformation & irresponsib…
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@aida.follows.technology
Aída Ponce Del Castillo
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We are witnessing a new trend in AI: — Safety, fairness, misinformation & responsibility are removed — Safety is being deliberately deprioritized because those who hold the monopoly on AI view it as an obstacle to their dominance. We cannot fail to challenge this! — www.wi…
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@dalonso.mas.to.ap.brid.gy
@dalonso.mas.to.ap.brid.gy
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Under Trump, AI Scientists Are Told to Remove ‘Ideological Bias’ From Powerful Models — A directive from the National Institute of Standards and Technology eliminates mention of “AI safety” and “AI fairness.” — https://www.wired.com/story/ai-safety- institute-new-directive-am…
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@ruchowdh
Rumman Chowdhury
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“Human flourishing” has long been on my list of bullshit terms wrt AI - some memed Aristotle and it became the bullshit term of AI ethics - but now it's a right wing dog whistle. — Keep an eye on how the AISI will be weaponized as the Trump/Musk AI Act is written. 1/ — www.w…
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@hypervisible
@hypervisible
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“'The Trump administration has removed safety, fairness, misinformation, and responsibility as things it values for AI, which I think speaks for itself,' says one researcher at an organization working with the AI Safety Institute, who asked not to be named for fear of reprisal.”
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@iansociologo
Ian Carrillo
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Keeping this in mind next time I see a “Making AI More Ethical” workshop on campus. [embedded post]
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@bethnoveck
Beth Simone Noveck
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Stripping ‘AI safety’ from requirements while demanding economic competitiveness is like suggesting we can sell more cars by removing seatbelts. Hallucinating AIs don't create value—they create lies. Real competitiveness requires responsible accuracy, not ideological blindspots…
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@karlrolson.com
@karlrolson.com
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I guess that confirms there's an overlap in the Venn diagram of “people mad their ERP chat bot told them to stop being bigoted” and “people now running previously serious, professional federal agencies.” [embedded post]
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@tamigraph
Tamara Kneese
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So much for the safety vs ethics debate because it's all canceled — Looking forward to the underground Responsible Technofeudalism meetings [embedded post]
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@bananapantz
@bananapantz
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Politicizing and destroying the NIST is a truly idiotic thing to do. We're all going to pay so very much for this. [embedded post]
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@shannonvallor
Shannon Vallor
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Nothing about this is a surprise, not even the grim joke that an AI safety institute no longer wants any experts in AI safety [embedded post]
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@emmalbriant
Dr Emma L Briant
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Whose ideology? [embedded post]
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@edzitron.com
Ed Zitron
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Dario Amodei about to become Wario Amodei [embedded post]
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@matrig@mastodon.social
Mattia Rigotti
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Under Trump, AI Scientists are directed to eliminate mentions of AI fairness, responsibility and safety — “Unless you're a tech billionaire, this is going to lead to a worse future for you and the people you care about. Expect AI to be unfair, discriminatory, unsafe, and deplo…
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