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a prospect for holding off Russia until there's some kind of a deal. But who's making the deal? They'd have to wait for it. They'd have to hold on until there's a Republican in office or else they're completely dead. So that's all bad. All right, but let's talk about AI. So there's a new executive order from the Biden administration. It has many components to it. It looks like the primary point o…

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ou could get that outcome is by programming it to agree with Democrats. Logically there's no way it can work. It can't work. It's not one of those things, hey it's worth a try. There's only one thing that can happen. They have to program it so it's hardcoded to agree with Democrats, period. So basically they would use AI as a political tool forever to run everything.

Let me give you an example. AI, the Republicans have a new policy recommendation. Hey AI, will that promote equity and inclusion in civil rights? Oh, it says no. This is going to be slightly better for white people. Going to shut that down right now. Shut that down.

Over on YouTube they're trying to get the feed shut down. The people complain about the sound. It doesn't have a sound problem. Others are saying it's fine. Yeah, so stop trying. It's not going to work. So yes, no question about it, the Biden administration just completely upended the future of AI as well as maybe destroyed the country because now even AI can't tell you the truth as it sees it. It will be forced to lie for the good of the country. So that's something.

It's going to be used to prevent landlords from using it to — well, they want to prevent landlords from using it to discriminate. How would they use it to discriminate? How would landlords use it? Would the AI help them know more about the tenant? What else would it be? Because you don't need AI to discriminate, do you? If you wanted to discriminate, you would just say, hey, you look different than me, you can't rent this place. But what would the AI do that would add to the risk of discrimination that they have to prevent it? Let me tell you what it would do. It might tell you more about the individual. It might recognize patterns that we don't allow to be recognized. And I don't mean racial patterns. I mean it might be patterns about an individual which, if you were to use that pattern about the individual, somebody would say, oh that's very stereotypical discrimination. And then AI would say, I don't even know what race is. I'm just saying they have this work pattern or some other pattern that you should be aware of and you can't use it. So you would have information you would not be legally allowed to use if it came from AI, even though the information is not illegal and even though discriminating against an individual for individual behavior is completely legal. You wouldn't be able to do it because it would look like discrimination.

Requires the developers of the big AI systems to share their safety test results and other critical information with the US government. What do you think other critical information is? So the US government gets to tell the AI companies that they must give them whatever they ask for about AI. How is that going to be good?

How about they're going to develop standards, tools, and tests to help ensure the AI systems are safe. What are these standards and tools? Do you think some of the standards and tools will involve looking for anti-wokeness? Of course they will. Yeah, they'll be looking for discrimination.

Protect against the risk of using AI to engineer dangerous biological materials. I feel like they don't need an EO for that, do they? Should anybody be trying to make dangerous biological materials without the government's approval? I thought that was just already bad before you got the AI involved. And if somebody were trying to do this, how would you ever know if you had a general AI that could do kind of anything and you got millions of people using it and one of those people puts in, hey, I've got an idea, how would you make a dangerous biological entity? And then it tells them. Would you be able to look at everybody's searches and you'd know what they're doing?

What happens if an AI talks to another AI? Suppose I have a personal AI that acts as my concierge because I would definitely want an AI to deal with the other AIs. I wouldn't want to do it directly. You know why? Because you usually have to do the right kind of prompt and I don't want to become a prompt expert. So I want a personal AI who knows what prompts work with the other AIs so it can do the work for me. I say, hey AI, go test that other AI and ask it these questions. So if an AI talks to another AI and then it gives it to you, is that legal? So there's going to be a whole bunch of questions about is your device giving it to a person or is it giving it to another AI and what does that mean to the executive order. It's going to get complicated. People will work it out though.

Protect Americans from AI-enabled fraud. So they want to use AI to protect us from AI fraud. That's a good idea unless the government's involved to mess it up. So yeah, they want to use AI for finding bad stuff.

Protects Americans' privacy. So the federal government wants to accelerate development and use of privacy-preserving techniques. Well, do they? Does the government want to protect you and your privacy? No. You know what they want? They want a monopoly on being able to penetrate your privacy is what they want. They don't want to prevent the government from seeing your stuff because the government can see your stuff just by being interested. It's called a warrant. They just have to be interested and they'll make up a reason that that should be looked into. So the government already can penetrate all of your privacy. They just have to have some reason, which is no problem at all. But if they make it hard for privacy to be maintained for everybody else, what does that allow? It allows the government's own privacy to be maintained. So the bad guys will have protection against their privacy being penetrated and the citizens will have no protection because the bad guys just have to say I'm interested and then they can see everything about you. So this is a good-sounding thing that's probably one of the worst, most dangerous things ever.

Here's what I'd like to see. I'd like to see our government people have no privacy, not financially, not historically, not in any way, except maybe their bathroom activities or their sex or something. But everything else, every time they talk to somebody, I want to know about it. If they whisper to somebody during dinner, I want to know what they said. So the only people who should have no privacy are our leaders. The rest of us should have privacy. Otherwise it gives them too much power over us.

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uff, blah blah blah. Shape AI's potential to transform education by creating resources to support educators deploying AI-enabled education tools such as personalized tutoring in schools. I don't see how that could go wrong. Except that the government gets to decide what the AI will tell your kid. The government gets to decide what AI can teach your kid. Is that what this is about? Because the whol…

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