When the Biden administration created an “A.I. Safety Institute” two years ago, its charge was to act as a kind of consumer safety commission for artificial intelligence, making sure that the app on your phone would not also make it easier for a terrorist to produce a chemical or biological weapon from easily-acquired ingredients.
President Trump and his aides appear animated by a different threat: “woke” A.I.
[Mr. Trump] issued three executive orders … to spur what his administration calls “A.I. dominance,” one of them addressed what his A.I. adviser told reporters was “political bias,” though it is not clear who — human or bot — will make that judgment.
“The American people do not want woke Marxist lunacy in the A.I. models,” Mr. Trump said … at a summit on the subject.
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The weapons-of-mass-destruction concern, the administration has concluded, is well understood enough that it doesn’t require similarly urgent presidential intervention.
