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NEW: The Transportation Department, which oversees the safety of airplanes, cars and pipelines, plans to use Google Gemini to draft new regulations.
“We don’t need the perfect rule,” said DOT’s top lawyer. “We want good enough.”
#News #trump #transportation #government #safety #ai #artificialintelligence #GoogleAI #google
@ProPublica Aren't they already?
@ProPublica "good enough for gov work!"
@ProPublica is it so hard to just write stuff?
@ProPublica Good Enough??? This is the country we now live in.
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Wow.
First thought, even before shaking my head, was:
Ah, they are adjusting laws to better fit to the miserable quality level checks at Boeing.
#AISlop and #AutonomousVehicles what could possibly go wrong?
@ProPublica Good luck with that
@ProPublica I wonder in how many ways it will fail. 
This news from the US Department of Transportation makes me think of John de Lancie's character in Breaking Bad, Donald Margolis, who happens to be an air traffic controller.
What could possibly go wrong with using generative AI to draft rules that govern safety?
Spoilers at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_characters_in_the_Breaking_Bad_franchise#Donald_Margolis
@ProPublica "[We want good enough to leave loopholes that can be exploited by adequately-resourced companies]"
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And how many planes falling, cars crashing and pipes bursting, do these bozo s think is enough?
“My buddies, who all bet too big on their AI toys, are gonna lose their (a)$$ if we don’t cram this AI junk everywhere. Let’s use more tax-payer dollars to get AI into writing national policy that will enrich us even more!”
What could possibly go wrong…
@ProPublica instantly reminded me of Metal Gear Solid 2
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On the upside, if regulations will be "good enough", this could drastically reduce people's eagerness to fly - which would have immediate positive climate impacts...😉
But seriously - this is kind of ironic that Trump and republicans are getting excited about "more government per minute" when I thought they wanted less of it. If they can spit out more laws and faster than before, it just means more government, not less. Someone usually always needs to oversee, implement, train, communicate all these new laws. Or it's just more paper.
@ProPublica Are they feeding the AI Mien Kampf?
While I’ve no doubt this will be bad, I’m not sure whose intelligence I trust less, AI or the Trump administration
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@ProPublica the safety and reliability of a Tesla, now available in all plains, trains, and automobiles
@ProPublica What could POSSIBLY go wrong? 🙄
We are in the stupidest timeline.
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The fact that Google would accept money to do this tells me all i need to know about my phone right now 😮💨
@ProPublica that's a pretty weird position to take when talking about transportation safety?
@ProPublica #chunderroad
As long as Google Gemini's new regulations only apply to Billionaires private aircraft I'm all for it.
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When you plan in advance to ignore all laws, why bother actually writing them?
@ProPublica Well, as long as they check the results the LLM produces, we should be fi ....
... who am I kidding? They'll probably assign the same people who are assiduously "reviewing" the Trump Files for any mention of Epstein. 😈
Because when it comes to airplane safety, "screw it, close enough" is the rule you want to live by.
@ProPublica Wow, that's... "insane" is the only word that comes to mind.
Safety regulations are written in blood. Disregarding that will lead to more blood.
(Obviously they don't care whose blood they spill as long as it isn't theirs...)
@woozle @ProPublica they’re happy to kill as much of the hoi polloi as possible.
@radicalfaery Yeah, I keep forgetting that. 
I'm sure their reality-bubble will protect their jets. (If it doesn't, they'll just fire people until it does. I'm sure that'll work out great.)
@ProPublica Nice. Can they please also use that for Secret Service operational planning?
@ProPublica Preeeeeeeety sure keeping people alive and not ready lawyer up in the face of an accident should be prioritized as the perfect rule. But what do I know? I'm not a fascist!
@ProPublica anyone foolish enough to fly at this point, is essentially putting their lives in the hands of the DOGE boys
@ProPublica I'm sure it will do wonders for the will of the people, just as it did for the GOP drawing electoral maps. Those with the deepest pockets get to paint the rosiest picture, for themselves.
@ProPublica well, at least not grok! Just kidding. Sue AI will create a lot of concepts of a regulation
@ProPublica Who cares? The NAZI TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS 100% ILLEGITIMATE.
@LightFIAR I mean, we know that; this just underscores the point.
...but I guess the people who still approve of Team Tr#mp are unlikely to see this as anything but "efficiency".
@woozle @ProPublica And AI, like anti-vax people, is just the kind of stupid, failed shit one would expect from the DIM Don.
(Demented Imbecilic Malignancy)
Well … nobody is perfect. 😉 At least LLMs reflect their complete set of textual | structural dataset of the topic to generate this stuff. Which is far more than any living person has directly available.
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gemini started popping up on my Android and I told it to go away and leave me alone
@ProPublica Apart from all the other problems, which are of course many, AI responses are based on requests. Even if the AI were perfect, you would get quite different responses if your request asked either to create a policy that maximised consumer safety, or one that made corporate well-being the priority. I strongly doubt we'll get told what was asked for.
And this is why safety rules aren't written by lawyers. Or shouldn't be.
@ProPublica Oh boy! I can't wait (yes, I can) for Life as an AI servant.
