JOE-KER ‘WOKER’ AI PLAN Tech ‘takeover’
A conservative group is accusing the White House and powerful Democrats and liberals of scheming to “make AI woke.”
Pointing to public plans for training artificial-intelligence systems to be more inclusive and less prone to “harmful bias” or “algorithmic discrimination,” the American Accountability Foundation is warning in a new memo that “by taking over AI,” political ideologues “can take over the world.”
“The Biden administration’s efforts to make AI woke is absolutely terrifying. The prospect of AI being rigged by the Left is truly Orwellian,” American Accountability Foundation President Tom Jones told The Post.
“This is just another example of how the woke never miss an opportunity to seize power. All Americans need to know about what Biden and his cronies are up to.”
The AAF memo cites four recent Democratic public strategies as evidence of a broader quest to woke-ify the nascent technology.
First is the “Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights” released by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy last October.
The blueprint warns of “algorithmic discrimination” in which systems treat people differently based on their race, sex or other characteristic.
To remedy that, the blueprint recommends steps such as “proactive equity assessments as part of the system design.”
“Independent evaluation and plain language reporting in the form of an algorithmic impact assessment, including disparity testing results and mitigation information, should be performed,” the blueprint says.
Second is the National Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Strategic Plan, released in May, which warns, “AI systems are prone to ‘hallucinate’ and recapitulate biases derived from the unfiltered data from the internet used to train them.”
That report came from the National Science and Technology Council, whose membership includes “AI czar” and Vice President Kamala Harris, who has warned about the grim potential for racism in AI.
“[T]he thing about racial bias in technology is that unlike the racial bias that you can [identify] pretty easily — all of us can detect when you get stopped in a department store or while you’re driving — the bias that is built into technology will not be very easy to detect,” she said in 2019 while a US senator representing California.
Third is the appointment of Miriam Vogel to chair the National AI Advisory Committee. Vogel works as the president and CEO of EqualAI, which strives to “reduce unconscious bias in our AI and promote responsible AI governance.”
Last, AAF points to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) SAFE Innovation Framework that warns AI has the potential for “supercharged disinformation” and the “amplification of bias.”
The White House did not respond to a request for comment.