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Joe Biden Wants US Government Algorithms Tested for Potential Harm Against Citizens (www.wired.com)

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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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[-] bioemerl@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] Assman@sh.itjust.works 42 points 1 year ago

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

[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

Kbin, what do you expect.

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[-] krellor@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

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

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