Originally published at: Government by AI? Trump Administration Plans to Write Regulations Using Artificial Intelligence - TPM – Talking Points Memo
This story was originally published by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. 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…
Almost certainly not legal given the transparency requirements around rule making. If you can’t use AI to make insurance decisions, you sure as hell can’t use them to decide what the law can mean.
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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.”
More laziness and unwillingness to do a job except at the bare minimum level from …white men, those lovers of meritocracy and the protestant work ethic.
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May I point out , legality is not a consideration for the current regime. As far as transparency is concerned ,not one official would comment to the press for this article.
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Needless to say, but I will say it anyway…..
Garbage in, garbage out.
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One of the least important but most telling revelations of the Epstein files released thus far is how many wealthy, important people are incapable of even composing an email. It does not surprise me that Trump appointees would clap like seals at the prospect of letting an LLM do their jobs for them.
In the long run, this just makes it easier to justify abolishing everything connected to Trump.
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“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.” This will be a tremendous gift to litigators. Lawyers get rich on ambiguities in legislation and regulations, and with Chevron gone the administration’s interpretation of those ambiguities will get no deference from the courts. Careful drafting of regs to avoid those ambiguities is an art, an art AI will have a hard time mastering. Trump will come to rue the death of Chevron. It’s easy to draft a reg that says “X”. It’s hard, though, to draft a reg that couldn’t also be interpreted to say “Y”, and without Chevron it will be a court, not the agency, that says whether “X” or “Y” will prevail.
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What’s the big deal? Trump and his nutcase minions have been faking that they are intelligent for most of their lives. Now they can hide behind machines that are, in truth, stupider than they are.
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This would put a lot of lobbyists out of work.
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Was this article somehow written with AI?
I don’t believe I’ve ever seen one with so many spaces omitted, so that words run together.
Weird.