The Trump administration is planning to use artificial intelligence to write federal transportation regulations, according to U.S. Department of Transportation records and interviews with six agency staffers.Turn on the garbage machine!
Zerzan appeared interested mainly in the quantity of regulations that AI could produce, not their quality. “We don’t need the perfect rule on XYZ. We don’t even need a very good rule on XYZ,” he said, according to the meeting notes. “We want good enough.” Zerzan added, “We’re flooding the zone.”
I’m actually not sure I understand fully what the goal is. I thought they wanted less regulation. Wouldn’t the simplest thing be to just take the rules off the books? Or is the idea that they’ll create regulations that are unfollowable and thus will be ignored?
Some rule writers have decades of experience. But all that seemed to go ignored by the presenter, attendees said. “It seems wildly irresponsible,” said one, who, like the others, requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the matter.
Any single one of the incidents that have happened in the past few days would have been considered catastrophic in the Biden administration or any before that. That news like this is routine is a product of the fact that the government and large tech companies are now run by people actively trying to ruin lives for their own benefit.