The Criticism of ‘Woke Artificial intelligence’ by Musk suggests it may be a Trump Administration target
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The VP pick of Donald Trump, who has talked of reining in Big Tech companies, is also known to have called GOOGLE “one of the most dangerous companies in the world”.
The first Trump administration targeted perceived bias at Big Tech companies with an executive order designed to hold platforms accountable for censoring information for political reasons. The pressure resulted in Meta abandoning plans for a dedicated news section on Facebook.
Musk supported a bill that would have forced companies to make their models available for vetting, despite his opposition to government regulation.
Any remark thatMusk makes will have a big effect on the presidential race according to a George Mason University research fellow. “At a maximum he could have some sort of seat in a potential Trump administration, and his views could actually be enacted into some sort of policy.”
“A lot of the AIs that are being trained in the San Francisco Bay Area, they take on the philosophy of people around them,” Musk said at the Future Investment Initiative, a Saudi Arabia government–backed event held in Riyadh this week. “So you have a woke, nihilistic—in my opinion—philosophy that is being built into these AIs.”
According to Musk, Artificial Intelligence programs are not politically correct and should be stopped by the Trump administration.
Donald Trump was suspended by several websites after they said he encouraged violence at the Capitol. These companies had never made a decision like that before. The content shared by platforms lead to the US to that moment and they took steps to remove thousands of accounts.
It’s not your average politics newsletter. Makena Kelly and her team at the WIRED Politics help make sense of the internet’s influence on politics.
The balance of power in Congress shifted after the midterm elections. Republicans now had a majority—albeit a slim one—in the House of Representatives and used that sliver of power to go after the researchers and trust and safety workers who did the dizzying work of debunking election myths. Jim Jordan, the newly appointed chair of the powerful House Judiciary Committee, immediately launched investigations that stifled the work of academics, and started harassment campaigns against entire moderation teams at worst. As a result of these attacks, the Stanford Internet Observatory, one of the top disinformation research groups, shut down for good over the summer.
In the months and days after the riot, a lot of the social media infrastructure built to protect our democratic systems has fallen due to neglect or force. There are only five days left until Election Day and a chasm has formed in what little foundation remains.
To start with what we all know: Elon Musk took over Twitter and turned it into X, a conspiratorial wasteland where professional disinformation purveyors earn thousands of dollars peddling lies. Alex Jones’ and Andrew Tate’s accounts were banned years ago before the 2020 election even started, but now they’re back. Musk has spent the last few weeks spreading election lies and campaigning for Trump.
These fissures in platforms have happened across the board. Last year, Alphabet, Meta, and X reduced the size of their trust and safety teams and Meta completely abandoned a project building a new fact-checking tool as a result of cuts. Not only has Meta cast a blind eye to the militias currently organizing on its platforms, it is auto-generating militia-related groups.