You'll never guess who has been running the show in the Biden White House and who, essentially, wrote the woke executive order on AI regulation this week.
It's none other than former President Barack Hussein Obama!
You mean to tell me that Joe Biden didn't write that entire pro-diversity, woke, anti-racist AI regulation himself? Are you telling me Joe Biden doesn't have the mental capacity to do that himself?
For the ONLY time during Joe Biden's presidency, the former two-term President has gotten involved in policy. He's NEVER done this before.
Obama has been working for five months with tech people and the White House, essentially running the entire show when it comes to the AI issue, and it was Obama who came up with the woke plan to regulate AI.
It's the first time Biden has tapped his former boss to help shape a key policy initiative, aides said, and he did it because Obama shares his views on the issue and brings a certain heft that could help move the process along quickly.
"You have to move fast here, not at normal government pace or normal private-sector pace, because the technology is moving so fast," White House chief of staff Jeff Zients recalled Biden saying. "We have to move as fast, or ideally faster. And we need to pull every lever we can."
Right. Right. Right.
This is the FIRST time Biden has asked Obama for help.
The AI industry leaders were reluctant to support this sort of regulation, but Obama came in and put the squeeze on them.
Obama was particularly helpful in laying the groundwork for tech companies to voluntarily sign on to have their AI models pressure-tested before they're released to the public, Biden and Obama aides said. Part of his approach was to urge industry leaders to consider risks beyond national security, including information integrity, bias and discrimination.
The tech companies weren't about to go against the anointed one, Barack Obama. They could have said no to Biden, but that Obama magic really worked on them.
Of course, this is an NBC story so, out of absolutely nowhere, in the middle of the story, they stick this in:
The White House is particularly worried about the role AI could play in amplifying misinformation around key elections.
Already, former President Donald Trump, the Republican front-runner in the 2024 presidential race, is amplifying baseless conspiracy theories that imply Obama is somehow secretly still in power, for which there is no evidence.
"We need to regulate AI because of the election! Also, Trump is LYING about Obama being involved in the White House."
Literally stuck that in the middle of a story about Obama running the show.
Yeah, sure NBC, we believe you.
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