Trump’s AI executive order may not prevent dangerous deployments
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macosandlinux
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All his EOs are not worth the paper they're printed on (and that fountain pen ink he talks about).
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It's not much of a problem to have a performative test when that's the goal. The article presupposes anyone in the administration gives a damn about anything, but the past two years have decisively disproven that. All the mealymouth language seems kinda.. performative.
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ubercurmudgeon
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So, less a sophisticated Voight-Kampff test, and more being able to remember the words person, woman, man, camera, TV?
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The worst part?
Even if the USA gets rid of this gang of failed podcasters and crappy TV stars in the executive...the Brain Trust that made everything work is done and gone. And even if sanity comes back--those workers aren't coming back. The social contract, which was the reason most SMEs in government stayed there and didn't take a pay raise to work private--is broken. And that rupture will take a working lifetime to heal.
Even if the USA gets rid of this gang of failed podcasters and crappy TV stars in the executive...the Brain Trust that made everything work is done and gone. And even if sanity comes back--those workers aren't coming back. The social contract, which was the reason most SMEs in government stayed there and didn't take a pay raise to work private--is broken. And that rupture will take a working lifetime to heal.
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One of the many problems with putting an unstable idiot in power is that he constantly works against his own objectives. I wonder if the "average Joe" American will ever notice that.
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ReadandShare
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Yep. Kimmel, Pell... Aurich.
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Because it's not within the abilities of this Administration to release a statement that DOESN'T bleed fascism out of all its pores...
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'promises not “to stifle this innovation with overly burdensome regulation”' are the fundamental cause of the reduction of the USA. Civilised society thrives on regulation, the only means short of revolution by which overweening power can be held in check.
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You can't do deterministic testing of a non-deterministic system. If you need 0% failure these systems can't do that. The only way to use them safely in a high risk environment is to aggressively sandbox them so that there is no permission risk because they're gated by deterministic systems.
The state of the art advice for these agents is that you should be writing new tests every single week in production, to catch new and previously unexpected behaviors.
The state of the art advice for these agents is that you should be writing new tests every single week in production, to catch new and previously unexpected behaviors.
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We wish that were the case, but even if they're bullshit enough people just follow them anyway that they unfortunately have an awful lot of power.
It's not great!
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Luckily gutting your supply of expertise only impedes testing if you plan to do it seriously; or if you don't want to overpay your failson's buddy's contracting shop to do.
If the plan is just to poke it a couple of times to test for wokeness and see if the vendor will provide a...facilitating donation...then you have considerably more flexibility.
If the plan is just to poke it a couple of times to test for wokeness and see if the vendor will provide a...facilitating donation...then you have considerably more flexibility.
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Hey, don't forget grift. Pay attention to who is paid to provide these certifications. And then look at who they donate to.
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They'll do a search for "DEI" and if it isn't found, will sign off on it as clean.
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My understanding from media reports is that this particular administration is under-weened.
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I'm curious how he handles the tortoise in the desert. If he doesn't first ask what one is because it isn't in the list given.
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It's a bunch of fucking gibberish, spewed by an incoherent dementia riddled octagenarian, in an attempt to calm the worried population. They're worried over a system in which he gets bribes donations so that his party remains in power after the midterms. Therefore he can continue to remove the rights of any non white, male, citizen of the US because he's mad about not making enough goddamn money.
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They don't need security experts because it's just a rubber stamp.
Unless you didn't make a 'donation'. Then your model doesn't get a stamp.
Unless you didn't make a 'donation'. Then your model doesn't get a stamp.
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"Critics say Trump plan to test AI models is short-sighted, performative."
Everything that child raping, draft dodging tax cheat has ever done in his rapidly dwindling life has been short-sighted and performative.
Everything that child raping, draft dodging tax cheat has ever done in his rapidly dwindling life has been short-sighted and performative.
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How is this not going to be twisted and perverted into a corrupt pay-to-play scheme to benefit Trump? Twisted, perverted and corrupt is what always happens when he's involved.
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Presumably, if the AI models can ace the same cognitive tests that Trump has aced, they should be good to go, working demonstrably at the level of presidential caliber and brilliance.
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"Person, woman, strawberry, man, Brasher v. Stewart, camera, pizza glue, TV..."
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Nah, you're underestimating how fickle humas are. We talk about 'broken social contracts' like they're permanent, but humanaties outlooks change in no time at all. A few years of stability, a fresh administration, or a bad private-sector tech layoff, and those same workers, or even better, the new wave, will be lining up for those government benefits again.
REMEMBER, human's forget 'unforgivable' grievances ridiculously fast..
The humans are a primitive and violent race
-Ironhide
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If it's voluntary, who the fuck is going to bother with it? They are running out of money. They dont' fucking CARE about safety. They just want the $$$ so they don't go bankrupt as all of them will eventually unless they manage to turn a profit (and that's not happened yet).
So this part follows like daytime follows nighttime:
They're not going to force the AI makers to do anything since that'd cost them money they can't afford to lose. Of course, once AI starts going bankrupt, Trump will be on the throw them under the bus crowd because they can't continue their bribe payments.
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Generally yes. But government in the USA has a big staffing problem. Well several:
- Reaganite style neoliberal politicians have been shouting "government is the problem" to the rooftops, for 40 years.
- Most people in America actually believe #1. They may not say it--but they wind up voting for people who parrot the austerity talk and "no new taxes" talk and so on...because that is the sum and substance of both political parties now: right-of-center, and far-right.
- Because of the above, state government jobs are very hard to fill and get very few applicants and that has been the case for many years. The pay is poor anyway.
- The Fed was somewhat immune to #3 due to: exclusivity, and earned pride for working with the best-in-field SMEs on the Big Things, but also good benefits, and job stability. Also the Fed jobs that were left (after decades of outsourcing and austerity) were higher-paying SME jobs, usually.
It isn't permanent--but it will take decades to rebuild the brain trust. Because basically no one in high school or college dreams of working for government anymore. Money and fame and stability are literally anywhere else. Trump can't even get enough of his own groupies to fill roles at his own DOJ in spite of literally begging for green-law-school-grads to apply via Twitter DM. These are jobs that prestigious law school grads took massive pay cuts, leaving top law firms and once-in-a-lifetime jobs, to work for the pride and the duty...and Trump can't even staffthem like a McDonald's.
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