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

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.”

    • eRac@lemmings.worldEnglish
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      3 days 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.”

      They are going for more regulation. If I had to guess, probably to flood federal courts with cases, hoping that they are too overwhelmed to stop anything important.

      • Mirshe@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 days ago

        It’s anticompetitive. Trying to keep up will kill off many businesses, which can be snapped up by the larger firms and corpos that can either afford to pay the fines or can simply ignore new regulations while their lawyers try to fight.