America.gov Launches Chatbot, UK Guardian Launches TDS

It’s wild how the default thought of liberals in the Credentialed Media is to go to Orange Man Bad

Trump’s AI chatbot turns on its master

Donald Trump, in a development that could almost be from a Greek tragedy, appears to have invented something that is willing to do what no one in his orbit will: tell him the truth.

The president launched America.gov on Tuesday, an AI platform which the White House says will make it easier for Americans to interact with the federal government and eventually complete services like renewing passports and enrolling in Medicare.

At the heart of the website is a chatbot. You plug in questions. It gives you answers.

No conspiracy, no mystery, just a gift from a Russian oligarch

Unfortunately for Trump, America.gov – which, according to the executive order he signed, is a place where Americans can “receive accurate answers” to all sorts of questions – is providing the kind of answers that he will not want to hear. It stands ready to debunk his false claims on all sorts of things, including election fraud, inflation and the impact of wind turbines on whales.

I would really recommend testing it out, as I did on Tuesday. I started off by asking Trump’s flagship product: Who won the 2020 election? Trump, famously and wrongly, argues that he did.

These people are so tedious. And insane. Make asylums great again. Bring in trained psychologists and psychiatrists.

Late Night Is Skeptical of A.I. Leaders Self-Regulating

President Trump met with tech leaders on Tuesday, with Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos among the attendees who signed a voluntary agreement to adopt A.I. safety policies. “They’re really going to be policing each other,” Mr. Trump said on Tuesday afternoon outside the White House.

Jordan Klepper likened the White House luncheon to “the last supper if everyone there believed they were the son of God” on Wednesday’s “Daily Show.”

“You want them to police themselves? Zuckerberg can’t even police my aunt from commenting on all of my pictures: ‘This is not a text message, Aunt Diane, you’re on my Instagram page. Everyone can see this,’.” — JORDAN KLEPPER

“I’m not saying that this self-policing document they signed is [expletive] that they barely bothered to read, but I will say they did misspell ‘United States.’” — JORDAN KLEPPER

Of course the NY Times goes to the Late Show for their Authority on AI stuff.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom bans AI ‘robo bosses’ in landmark state law, reversing his earlier veto

California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a landmark AI law banning Golden State employers from relying solely on artificial intelligence to fire or discipline workers.

SB 947, dubbed the No Robo Bosses Act, prevents businesses around the state from exclusively using “automated decision-making systems” in matters of employee discipline and termination. It also restricts their capacity to use AI as a principal tool in such decisions.

Under the bill, employers that rely “primarily” on AI output to make termination or disciplinary decisions must now have a human reviewer corroborate those decisions using additional information, such as managerial evaluations, peer reviews, and personnel files. Additionally, affected employees must be provided with written notice that AI was “primarily used” in their termination or disciplinary decision, a description of the employee data used by the system, and a human point of contact who can further explain the decision.

Has that ever happened? Apparently there is software which manages employees in this way, but, has this actually happened?