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.
KeraKali@lemmy.world 7 months ago
“If the benefits do not meaningfully outweigh the risks, agencies should not use the AI,” the memo says. But the draft memo carves out an exemption for models that deal with national security and allows agencies to effectively issue themselves waivers if ending use of an AI model “would create an unacceptable impediment to critical agency operations.”
Thus tells me that nothing is going to change if people can just say their algoriths would make them too inefficient. Great sentiment but this loophole will make it useless.
paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
This seems to me like an exception that would realistically only apply to the CIA, NSA, and sometimes the FBI. I doubt the Department of Housing and Urban Development will get a pass. Overall seems like a good change in a good direction.
mememuseum@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The CIA and NSA are exactly who we don’t want using it though.
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Algorithms that gerrymander voting district boundries might be an early battleground.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 7 months ago
“Realistically” baahahaba. Right.
masquenox@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s not a “great sentiment” - it’s essentially just more of the same liberal “let’s pretend we care by doing something completely ineffective” posturing and little else.
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Folksy narrator: “Turns out, the U.S. government can not operate without racism.”
intensely_human@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Democrats are so fucking naive. They actually think that a system of permission slips is sufficient to protect us from the singularity.
OpenAI’s original mission, before they forgot it, was the only workable method: distribute the AI far and wide to establish a multipolar ecosystem.