White House Orders Pentagon and Intel Agencies To Increase Use of AI (msn.com)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/10/24/208214/white-house-orders-pentagon-and-intel-agencies-to-increase-use-of-ai
- Source link: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/white-house-orders-pentagon-and-intel-agencies-to-increase-use-of-ai/ar-AA1sQb9d
> The edict is part of a landmark national security memorandum published Thursday. It aims to make government agencies step up experiments and deployments of AI. The memo also bans agencies from using the technology in ways that "do not align with democratic values," according to a White House news release.
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> "This is our nation's first ever strategy for harnessing the power and managing the risks of AI to advance our national security," national security adviser Jake Sullivan said in a speech Thursday. Sullivan called the speed of change in AI "breathtaking" and said it had the potential to affect fields ranging from nuclear physics to rocketry and stealth technology. The White House believes that providing clear rules for using AI will make it easier for government agencies to use the technology, according to a briefing with senior administration officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss details of the report before its publication.
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Honestly, perfect (Score:5, Insightful)
> expanding the Biden administration's efforts to curb technological competition from China and other adversaries
I cannot think of a better way to make sure China no longer competes with us than hitching our entire national economy and military readiness to another useless hype bubble that drives us straight into the ground.
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Well said!
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Could be worse, at least it's not cryptocurrency.
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Somehow in this shitty fucking election, both candidates for president have managed to articulate pro-cryptocurrency positions.
Harris framing it as "Protecting black men's crypto investments" didn't make it any less goddamn stupid.
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It's perfect as a Doomsday device. If we are losing WW3, we trigger KevorkianGPT and it takes out we humans so we don't have to off ourselves or suffer a bone chilling nuclear winter. Brilliant!
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uh, run where?
Oh great!... (Score:4, Insightful)
Weapons controlled by artificial idiots trained by the output of natural idiots.
you can tell /. is dying ... (Score:2)
... when the frost piss to this wasn't "what could possibly go wrong?".
Hey you! (Score:2)
You over there! Make sure you use more AI.
"do not align with democratic values" (Score:2)
Well now, who decides what "democratic values" are? The three letter agencies? I believe they defined this years ago ... anything goes.
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What the hell else would they even use it for then? Right now about all it's good for is spitting out massive amounts of low quality propaganda It isn't going to solve crimes or do anything useful for these agencies. This just sounds like an excuse to spend a shit ton of taxpayer money on dubious products of questionable value that happen to be sold by a personal friend or large donor.
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> This just sounds like an excuse to spend a shit ton of taxpayer money on dubious products of questionable value that happen to be sold by a personal friend or large donor.
TL;DR - Same Shit, Different Day
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> What the hell else would they even use it for then? Right now about all it's good for is spitting out massive amounts of low quality propaganda It isn't going to solve crimes or do anything useful for these agencies. This just sounds like an excuse to spend a shit ton of taxpayer money on dubious products of questionable value that happen to be sold by a personal friend or large donor.
I would guess somewhere behind the scenes the AI Prophets are pushing for this so that when the bubble inevitably bursts, they at least have a government teat or two in their mouths to keep the cash-flow coming. Our government officials are nothing if not predictably resilient when it comes to propping up the wanna be oligarchs, as well as the actual oligarchs.