From: Johnny@invalid.net   
      
   By Alexander Hall   
   Published February 22, 2023   
      
   President Biden signed an executive order on Thursday that critics warn   
   will allow for the creation of woke artificial intelligence (AI) that   
   "promotes racial division and discrimination."   
      
   The order directs all federal agencies to establish a yearly "equity   
   action plan" aimed at helping "underserved communities."    
      
   In one section under "Embedding Equity into Government-wide Processes,"   
   the Director of the Office of Management and Budget is instructed "to   
   support equitable decision-making, promote equitable deployment of   
   financial and technical assistance, and assist agencies in advancing   
   equity, as appropriate and wherever possible."   
      
   The section gives further instructions regarding AI, "When designing,   
   developing, acquiring, and using artificial intelligence and automated   
   systems in the Federal Government, agencies shall do so, consistent   
   with applicable law, in a manner that advances equity."   
      
   Political influencers and tech experts on Twitter all condemned such an   
   initiative as a moral hazard.   
      
   Christopher Rufo, the journalist who helped draw public attention to   
   "critical race theory," warned, "Biden's new executive order creating a   
   national DEI bureaucracy has a special mandate for woke AI. The order   
   instructs the federal government to ‘[protect] the public from   
   algorithmic discrimination’ and to deploy AI systems ‘in a manner that   
   advances equity.’"   
      
   Manhattan Institute fellow Colin Wright claimed that such a technology   
   could be fatal for our society.   
      
   "Biden is not a moderate. This is a legal sprint to inject as much   
   radical ideology as broadly and as deeply as possible in our   
   government. This cannot be allowed," he wrote. "If Republicans take   
   office, they must fully root out all of this ideological and social   
   cancer."   
      
   "The worst possible scenario imaginable for our future. Our children   
   and their children will be suffering the consequences of this mandate,"   
   software developer Jon Schlinkert tweeted. "AI is about to change the   
   world in unprecedented ways, the last thing we need is an AI that   
   promotes racial division and discrimination."   
      
   https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-executive-order-woke-artific   
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   The Republicans have a lot of shit to clean up.   
      
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