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US To Mandate AI Vendors Measure Political Bias For Federal Sales (reuters.com)

(Friday December 12, 2025 @10:30PM (BeauHD) from the ideology-not-found-404 dept.)


An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters:

> The U.S. government will [1]require artificial intelligence vendors to measure political "bias " to sell their chatbots to federal agencies, according to a Trump administration [2]statement (PDF) released on Thursday. The requirement will apply to all large language models bought by federal agencies, with the exception of national security systems, according to the statement.

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> President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies in July to avoid buying large language models that he labeled as "woke." Thursday's statement gives more detail to that directive, saying that developers should not "intentionally encode partisan or ideological judgments" into a chatbot's outputs.

Further reading: [3]Trump Signs Executive Order For Single National AI Regulation Framework, Limiting Power of States



[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-mandate-ai-vendors-measure-political-bias-federal-sales-2025-12-11/

[2] https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/M-26-04-Increasing-Public-Trust-in-Artificial-Intelligence-Through-Unbiased-AI-Principles-1.pdf

[3] https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/12/11/2352215/trump-signs-executive-order-for-single-national-ai-regulation-framework-limiting-power-of-states



Re: (Score:3, Insightful)

by dskoll ( 99328 )

Not really. The MAGA movement is more than one guy, and really it's the behind-the-scenes Project 2025 crowd controlling the agenda now.

Re:Just think (Score:4, Insightful)

by jacks smirking reven ( 909048 )

We are already seeing the signs of post-Trump MAGA civil war starting to creep up. Trump turning against MTG is kicking up a bit of a storm, they can all tell the old man has a foot out the door.

You've got the Bannon wing versus the Technocratic Vance wing along with the Groypers on the rise and the MTG conspiratorial post-Q MAGA crowd along with the old school Heritage/Federalist and a few others.

These conservative groups have a lot of conflicting beliefs, what has held them together is a unified support of Trump, without him those old disagreements are bubbling up again. The thing about Trump that screws them is Trump himself does not give a shit about the party or any of these groups, he has no succession plan and is not an actual party leader. He could give two shits what happens after he's gone, not his problem, just say nice things at his funeral.

Re: (Score:2)

by Kernel Kurtz ( 182424 )

> just say nice things at his funeral.

I suspect most other world leaders will be skipping that.

Re: (Score:2)

by sinij ( 911942 )

You do not understand what you are seeing. The civil war is about MAGA and warmongering neocons that sneaked in and trying to start more wars.

Re: (Score:2)

by jacks smirking reven ( 909048 )

Name names, who sneaked in and how did they do it?

Re: (Score:2)

by sinij ( 911942 )

Marco Rubio, Michael Kurilla, Ted Cruz, John Ratcliffe.

Re: (Score:2)

by jacks smirking reven ( 909048 )

So two of them snuck in by getting nominated? The other two were already around. What about Hegseth and Gabbard? They're not neocons too right?

What's the even the angle here?

Trump wants the war.

Trump is easily manipulated into the war.

Trump doesn't want the war but is a shit judge of character and/or is unable to stand up for himself.

Re: (Score:2)

by ArchieBunker ( 132337 )

Most cults collapse when the figurehead dies. Dear Leaders death will create an interesting power vacuum and struggle for control. The MAGA movement goes back to the TEA party which was started because of Obama.

Re: (Score:2)

by martin-boundary ( 547041 )

bump parent up

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes (Score:2)

by sinij ( 911942 )

Your side shot Charlie Kirk and got Nick Fuentes. You shoot Trump and you get ?

This is so very... (Score:2)

by magnetar513 ( 1384317 )

doubleplus ungood.

Will he reject Nazi ratings too? (Score:2)

by gurps_npc ( 621217 )

Cause if I were an AI company I would do my ratings like this:

Nazi

Maga

Very Conservative

Moderately Conservative

Then tell him that the following were possibilities:

Liberal

Woke

Communist

Even though not a single AI got that those ratings.

Or just give Trump some kind of peace prize. (Score:2)

by battingly ( 5065477 )

That will ensure your AI sales to the federal government go smoothly.

FoxGPT (Score:3)

by Tablizer ( 95088 )

is what they really want.

Obviously, (Score:2)

by angryman77 ( 6900384 )

this is so they can select the most insanely right-ring biased model possible. The language coming out of the current administration is painting anyone left of right wing nutjob as leftist terrorists.

SIEVE Design (Score:2)

by broward ( 416376 )

I laid out an initial design and API last month for an AI system to detect bias and menace.

base design: [1]https://www.scry.llc/2025/11/1... [scry.llc]

specialized variation: [2]https://www.scry.llc/2025/11/1... [scry.llc]

[1] https://www.scry.llc/2025/11/16/sieve-overview/

[2] https://www.scry.llc/2025/11/17/sycophantic-engine/

Does not include installation.