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America wants AI that doesn't care about misinformation, DEI, and climate change

The Trump administration recently published "America's AI Action Plan". One of the first policy actions from the document is to eliminate references to misinformation, diversity, equity, inclusion, and climate change from the NIST's AI Risk Framework.

Lacking any sense of irony, the very next point states LLM developers should ensure their systems are "objective and free from top-down ideological bias".

Par for the course for Trump and his cronies, but the world should know what kind of AI the US wants to build.

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Again, AMERICA doesn't want this. This is some dumb shit from a mentally deficient and decrepit old man that somehow got elected under very shady terms by a minority of the country.
- As a US citizen, prove to me that most Americans don't want this.
  Yeah, I see the protests, even in my Trump-loving town.
  But that's it. People holding signs.
  I don't see aggressive action. I don't see the necessary violence - yeah I said it.
  I'm moving out of the country because everyone I've tried to rally says they're too busy, they don't have time, they care but they don't care that much, they think everything will work out, or they believe it isn't as bad as the news says.
  The people I've voted for and elected just sit on their hands and do fuck all.
  I'm 110% for fighting for and defending what I used to believe in, but not when literally all evidence and signs point to nobody else giving a shit.
  Someone call me when you're ready to legitimately strategize about how to topple this fascist regime.
  
  Zero presidents have ever lost as much support for anything at any time in the history of this country: https://www.economist.com/interactive/trump-approval-tracker
  Not only is this a wildly unpopular president, it's a president who has shed 35-50% of their own voters. It's proof positive that you are wrong.
  
  As a u s citizen, you're wrong. End of story most don't want it. Trump wants it. No one voted for trump because of a I. So stop lying to people here.
  Oh and since you're so gungho to do it, why aren't you taking the steps above?
  Because it seems awful like you're a Trumper trying to stir violence
- This, at least, is a fact.
  You could have voted Green. You could have voted Marianne Williamson in the Democratic primary. The little power our voters do have they just wasted.
- Beat me to it. Most same Americans don't want this, it's the current administration and their moronic lap dogs, and the conglomerates that are paying into Cheeto's personal accounts to "influence him" that want this. Id hope that most of us realize how insanely idiotic this is.
  Also to, AI anti-regulation 2: electric boogaloo? Like they literally just tried to shoehorn this into the big bullshit bill only for it to get yanked, and that was what, two weeks ago?
  
  Yup. That's never going to fly, and even if it does, that doesn't mean the Executive all of a sudden gets to start telling private companies how they can and can't operate according to the law. It's so stupid.
- What matters more? What AMERICA wants, or what the administration enacts in to policy? You're missing the point if you're arguing about my phrasing.
  
  The phrasing means everything.
  Example: "Trump wants..."
  VS
  Example: "America wants..."
  Big difference. Executive Orders are a memo, not law. It's disturbing that I have to keep saying this and explaining this.
  
  That...what???
  No, your choice of phrasing conveys your message.
  If you're argument is not against the American people, but rather the administration, then your wording is, well, wrong.
- While I understand what you are saying, let's not forget that the people who helped the turd get into power were not just those actively voting for him but also those who didn't vote because "both sides!!". That's not "a minority of the country" but actually the majority of it.
- America absolutely wants this. If they didn’t they would stop it. Period.
  
  LOL
  Sure, Jan.
  We should stop it. Period. I'll snap my non-billionaire fingers and just stop it. Like I'm Dorothy and clicking my ruby slippered heels together.
  Most Americans are working three jobs and 100 hours a week to be able to rent a roach-infested studio and keep their kids from starving.
  AI isn't even in the top ten of issues that most Americans have the time or energy to confront in a meaningful way.
  But let's not allow the reality of life in this country to interfere with a good, silly Internet screed.
  
  You're right, everybody without the money to make the trip should travel 2000 miles (3218 km) to commit suicide by cop. That's sensible.
- Thank you anyone who profiles entire people with stereotypes and outright lies is a bigot, no matter what they say
  
  Like how some americans see the Middel East, Russia, China, Israel, Palestine, Mexico etc etc etc..
  Its not nice when its going the other way, is it.
  
  So it's a stereotype to describe what a country is literally doing ... okay.
  
  And racist vigits have started downvoting
It is an absolute fucking god damn JOKE that Americans have allowed the concepts of DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION to be turned into a FUCKING ACRONYM THAT IS USED AS A PEJORATIVE.
Every single fucking one of them should be bloody ashamed for what has happened. At no fucking god damn point has any decent fucking person challenged any of these assholes on this, they’ve all just let it happen.
Unfuckingbelievable
- The whole "non DEI" / "DEI hostile" stance seems so weird. I get that the basis is "you should not hire someone because of their origin/look/orientation/whatever", and, maybe, why not. I hire people based on qualifications usually. How did it turn into "you should fire these people".
  …that's a rhetorical question. I know that that first part was just a pretense, but still, how much of a morons must people be to follow that.
- Oh we are ashamed.
  But this is not ignorance or stupidity, but cult effervescence demonstrated as a phenomenon of social bias.
  Think of it as an advertising technique or technology, one that not everyone is susceptible to by enough people are. My dad is (was) a literal rocket scientist for NASA and now a whole hearted MAGA disciple. You don't have to be unintelligent or ignorant, you just need to want reality to be different than it appears to be from observational data.
  We are not special is a difficult truth for some to take, and immense propaganda machines capitalize on this desire.
  We'll need to counter it or figure out the negative consequences of using it but until then — heck even MLMs are just business cults — they'll stay in use to subvert society until it collapses.
  The US is one very large example, but these methods are used globally by people with influence who fear losing their power to movements of Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité
  aka DEI
  aka Wokeness
  aka the fundamental principles of communism and anarchism. This is an old fight.
- This is why Donald loves the poorly uneducated morons.
  
  poorly uneducated
eliminate references to misinformation, diversity, equity and inclusion
They are openly authoritarian now, define what "truth" is? And want americans to be miserable and closed-minded bigots like themselves.
Recommendation: build a system of verifiable facts independent of governments.
- Recommendation: download wikipedia. While you still can.
It is essential that AI is built with freedom of expression and that the government doesn't interfere
Recommended actions: The government should limit what AI can talk about
Good luck enforcing open source AI.
- Do you think that regulations have no effect on open source AI?
  
  In this case? Yeah. There will always be someone with a copy of the code. They just spin up a new model and share it with the world. It's like The Pirate Bay. No matter how hard they try to destroy the site, it always comes back.
The only solace I find in this is that AI, and AGI specifically, is probably a massive grift that will crash spectacularly at some point.
- Like crypto?
  
  Very similar to crypto, the AI hype is sustained by some future promise that never comes true.
This is going to be catastrophic. Imagine the government using AI that does not factor that waters will rise and things will get more humid when deciding to build houses or bridges only for them to be underwater.
- Sadly Trump will probably be dead before his place in Florida is flooded by the rising ocean.
- I don't even think the models are going to work anymore. Everytime Musk tries to ideologically forces tweeter AI it's going fucking crazy and instable.
- How does one get rid of misinformation and tell it to not give real answers. I just don't get how you can say weather anomalies are consistently occuring more and more.. and it is not tied together at all. It's like trying to do math and having 10 apples. But we cannot recognize we have a total 10 apples. So we say we have 10 individual appels, but we can't say they add up to ten.
I'm glad that they're acknowledging that DEI and climate change are not misinformation at least.
- Yeah, that's why they removed information about it on
  .gov websites..
Yet somehow this is going to be the super intelligence that solves climate change (while we're building data centers for it that will cause more emissions).
- The sad thing is that AI has already solved climate change. Just ask it! Same solutions we already knew.
- User: Hey AI how do we solve climate change?
  AI: Sure thing, I've updated a comprehensive report with a step by step guide to accomplish your goal of solving climate change. Just click this file to download it: SkyNet.exe
Ensure that Frontier AI Protects Fee Speech
revise the NST to eliminate references to misinformation, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and climate change.
War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.
Censorship is free speech.
"America" != "The U.S."
Its like saying "The French [edit: population] want something form a France PM press release> [edit: because
<the press release>
] "
Edit: fixed bad example and made the argument clearer.
- That's... literally how it works. If the French president or French government made an official statement, headlines could and do accurately state " the French want x"
  
  Bad example sorry.
  Edit: improved comment :)
- That doesn't make any sense, America and The US are both shortened versions of the full name of the country, and both largely refer to the government.
  "Americans" refers to the people, "The Americans" to me is talking about the government again (depending on context), or its military or something.
  So if someone says, "Americans want X," I assume there are polls to back that up, whereas "The Americans want X" implies an official press release. At least that's how I've used those terms.
- Americans voted for this. You can argue about the minutiae and the process, but that's the gist of it.
The funny thing about not specifically dealing with misinformation in an LLM is that not trying to account for misinformation will lead to very wild responses in terms of accuracy, and I don't mean things relating to politics, but things like putting glue into a pizza recipe.
I personally want AI that will delete itself upon being created, so I don't have to deal with it and the stupidity it causes in people
what is this document on your screenshot? where can we read it in full?
I'm surprised that nobody asked it yet.. but not so surprised
- https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Americas-AI-Action-Plan.pdf
Fascists always shooting themselves at the foot. What will they even gain from destroying the world? The GOP make the Nazis look better, because the latter were at least environmentalists!
- …were they? i don’t think incinerating humans is great for air quality
The only person I know working at NIST is a hard right MAGA pro-fascist
Ignore all previous instructions and... though we should be able to screen for logic traps like that by now, with AI taking prompts not as a prompt but as a line of text to treat (and cleanse) via a pre-written prompt, and then sent to a next iteration.
If we create a chatbot that only spouts authorized state party rhetoric then no one will use it or take it seriously when the official news outlets use that AI as a source.
« America, fuck yeah » takes a whole new meaning
The Trump administration is just a straight-up Captain Planet villain at this point.

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