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ProPublica
@ProPublica@newsie.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

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.”

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-artificial-intelligence-google-gemini-transportation-regulations

#News #trump #transportation #government #safety #ai #artificialintelligence #GoogleAI #google

ProPublica

Government by AI? Trump Administration Plans to Write Regulations Using Artificial Intelligence

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.”
#googleai #transportation #safety #government #News #artificialintelligence #google #ai #trump
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@Scofisticated@socel.net  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

@ProPublica ablobflushed blobnotlike

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@jmht@theatl.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

@ProPublica Aren't they already?

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LittlePolarBear
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@LittlePolarBear@freeradical.zone  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

@ProPublica "good enough for gov work!"

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@donlamb_1@mastodon.online  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

@ProPublica is it so hard to just write stuff?

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@prosborn@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

@ProPublica Good Enough??? This is the country we now live in.

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Arthur Dent
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@adamsfan@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

@ProPublica
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.

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@oldguycrusty@mastodon.world  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

@ProPublica

#AISlop and #AutonomousVehicles what could possibly go wrong?

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@Iveyline@mastodon.nz  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

@ProPublica Good luck with that

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@qgustavor@urusai.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

@ProPublica I wonder in how many ways it will fail. gchemoji02clown

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Francis Mangion (M)
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@franciswashere@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

#usa

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@johnlogic@sfba.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

@ProPublica

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

List of characters in the Breaking Bad franchise - Wikipedia

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@fencepost@infosec.exchange  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

@ProPublica "[We want good enough to leave loopholes that can be exploited by adequately-resourced companies]"

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Hugh Young-Bish
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@hugh@mastodon.nz  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

@ProPublica
And how many planes falling, cars crashing and pipes bursting, do these bozo s think is enough?

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Terra Says
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@terrasays@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

@ProPublica

“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!”

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@xs4me2@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

@ProPublica

What could possibly go wrong…

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@medusaskirt@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

@ProPublica instantly reminded me of Metal Gear Solid 2

Screenshot from a codec call conversation in the 2001 video game "Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty". Conversation is between PATRIOTS AI, represented in screenshot by Colonel Campbell with mostly transparent face skin to reveal skull, and Raiden. The AI is stating to Raiden, "To begin with -- we're not what you'd call -- human."
Screenshot from a codec call conversation in the 2001 video game "Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty". Conversation is between PATRIOTS AI, represented in screenshot by Colonel Campbell with mostly transparent face skin to reveal skull, and Raiden. The AI is stating to Raiden, "To begin with -- we're not what you'd call -- human."
Screenshot from a codec call conversation in the 2001 video game "Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty". Conversation is between PATRIOTS AI, represented in screenshot by Colonel Campbell with mostly transparent face skin to reveal skull, and Raiden. The AI is stating to Raiden, "To begin with -- we're not what you'd call -- human."
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@ChillTheThrill@social.vivaldi.net  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

@ProPublica
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.

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@NevelShute@ieji.de  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

@ProPublica Are they feeding the AI Mien Kampf?

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@lefthandmonki@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

While I’ve no doubt this will be bad, I’m not sure whose intelligence I trust less, AI or the Trump administration
@ProPublica

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@ShadSterling@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

@ProPublica the safety and reliability of a Tesla, now available in all plains, trains, and automobiles

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@bubbajet@mastodon.world  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

@ProPublica What could POSSIBLY go wrong? 🙄

We are in the stupidest timeline.

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@RnDanger@infosec.exchange  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

@ProPublica
The fact that Google would accept money to do this tells me all i need to know about my phone right now 😮‍💨

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@emory@soc.kvet.ch  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

@ProPublica that's a pretty weird position to take when talking about transportation safety?

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@TidalFlats@mastodon.coffee  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

@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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@sb@metroholografix.ca  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

@ProPublica
When you plan in advance to ignore all laws, why bother actually writing them?

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@ZhiZhu@newsie.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

@ProPublica

Oh, FFS.

How many people are going to die because of this idiocy?

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@jimthewhyguy@techfieldday.net  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

@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. 😈

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@Sassinake@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

@ProPublica

Mediocracy

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@MorganV@mastodon.world  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

@ProPublica

Because when it comes to airplane safety, "screw it, close enough" is the rule you want to live by.

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@woozle@toot.cat  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

@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...)

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@radicalfaery@lgbtqia.space  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

@woozle @ProPublica they’re happy to kill as much of the hoi polloi as possible.

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@woozle@toot.cat  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

@radicalfaery Yeah, I keep forgetting that. blobcatupsidedown blobcat_thisisfine

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

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@tessarakt@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

@ProPublica Nice. Can they please also use that for Secret Service operational planning?

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@mast0d0nphan@beige.party  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

@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!

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@whatzaname@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

@ProPublica anyone foolish enough to fly at this point, is essentially putting their lives in the hands of the DOGE boys

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@cmthiede@social.vivaldi.net  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

@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.

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@vgoller@nrw.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

@ProPublica well, at least not grok! Just kidding. Sue AI will create a lot of concepts of a regulation

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@LightFIAR@mstdn.plus  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

@ProPublica Who cares? The NAZI TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS 100% ILLEGITIMATE.

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@woozle@toot.cat  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

@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".

@ProPublica

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@LightFIAR@mstdn.plus  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

@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)

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@_RyekDarkener_@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

@ProPublica

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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@dbc3@mastodon.world  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

@ProPublica
gemini started popping up on my Android and I told it to go away and leave me alone

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@dearlove@mathstodon.xyz  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

@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.

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@tbortels@infosec.exchange  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

@ProPublica

And this is why safety rules aren't written by lawyers. Or shouldn't be.

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@Yoshi@toot.community  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

@ProPublica Oh boy! I can't wait (yes, I can) for Life as an AI servant.

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