US To Mandate AI Vendors Measure Political Bias For Federal Sales

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The U.S. government will require artificial intelligence vendors to measure political 'bias' to sell their chatbots to federal agencies, according to a Trump administration statement (PDF) released on Thursday. The requirement will apply to all large language models bought by federal agencies, with the exception of national security systems, according to the statement.

President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies in July to avoid buying large language models that he labeled as 'woke.' Thursday's statement gives more detail to that directive, saying that developers should not 'intentionally encode partisan or ideological judgments' into a chatbot's outputs. Further reading: Trump Signs Executive Order For Single National AI Regulation Framework, Limiting Power of States

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