The Trump administration just released a 25-page plan for American AI dominance, and buried in the bureaucratic language is something that should worry anyone who cares about truth. They claim they want to eliminate "ideological bias" from AI systems. They say they want artificial intelligence to be "objective and free from top-down ideological bias.
They say they want artificial intelligence to be "objective and free from top-down ideological bias. " Sounds great, right. Who could argue with objectivity.
Who could argue with objectivity. Here's the thing: They're the ones who get to decide what counts as "objective. " The executive order defines its own "Unbiased AI Principles" that require AI to be "truthful" and show "ideological neutrality" — but then immediately defines acknowledging concepts like "unconscious bias, intersectionality, and systemic racism" as violations of that neutrality.