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Government by AI? Trump Administration Plans to Write Regulations Using Artificial Intelligence (www.propublica.org)

submitted 1 week ago by HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works to c/news@lemmy.world

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The Trump administration is planning to use artificial intelligence to write federal transportation regulations, according to U.S. Department of Transportation records and interviews with six agency staffers.

The plan was presented to DOT staff last month at a demonstration of AI’s “potential to revolutionize the way we draft rulemakings,” agency attorney Daniel Cohen wrote to colleagues. The demonstration, Cohen wrote, would showcase “exciting new AI tools available to DOT rule writers to help us do our job better and faster.”

Discussion of the plan continued among agency leadership last week, according to meeting notes reviewed by ProPublica. Gregory Zerzan, the agency’s general counsel, said at that meeting that President Donald Trump is “very excited about this initiative.” Zerzan seemed to suggest that the DOT was at the vanguard of a broader federal effort, calling the department the “point of the spear” and “the first agency that is fully enabled to use AI to draft rules.”

Zerzan appeared interested mainly in the quantity of regulations that AI could produce, not their quality. “We don’t need the perfect rule on XYZ. We don’t even need a very good rule on XYZ,” he said, according to the meeting notes. “We want good enough.” Zerzan added, “We’re flooding the zone.”

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[–] T8rtot@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But.. but… Bidens autopen?!

[–] green_red_black@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 week ago

“This is different. The AI only write the drafts, not enacts the rules.”

Some Asshole

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There’s no way this can backfire.

My AI agents can’t figure out there’s a missing so they rewrite the same code multiple times, but surely giving them tasks that require entire libraries of books to work with will go perfectly.

[–] diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Hmm actually, you’re right! This was a bit of a redundant course to take! Let me rethink it and try again!

2 hours later

Here’s my answer! Oh no wait that’s actually not the best way to do that let me rethink that…

2 hours later

Here’s my answer! Oh no wait that’s actually not the best way to do that let me rethink that…

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 week ago

Zerzan appeared interested mainly in the quantity of regulations that AI could produce, not their quality. “We don’t need the perfect rule on XYZ. We don’t even need a very good rule on XYZ,” he said, according to the meeting notes. “We want good enough.” Zerzan added, “We’re flooding the zone.”

What the fucking fuck?

[–] green_red_black@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

So the models they are using is Google Gemini.

Why do I get the feeling that as the AI is prompted to have the rules be affordable and low expenses the AI just accidentally writes rules making mass transit free?

[–] imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Artificial is the only type of intelligence available to them