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54 points| davidgomes | 7 months ago |ai.gov

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aisisbsbll|7 months ago

> reap broad economic and security benefits

Does anyone still buy this? The economy is disproportionately controlled by a few (adjust the threshold you check at, it remains a large disparity for awhile). Economic benefits are often at odds with benefits for the median American. Check the number of tech layoffs and H1B approvals this year.

And for security, I had to move my family to a rural town just so we didn’t have to lock our doors at night. Security is heading the same direction as wealth - reserved for a select few.

makingstuffs|7 months ago

I wonder the same thing and, if anyone does, what on earth are they consuming/can I have some of it, please?

> ushering in a new Golden Age of innovation, human flourishing

Seriously, at this point in the timeline of human evolution, does any single living being believe that there is a single government which genuinely wants to see humans ‘flourishing’ as a whole?

It has been objectively proven time and time again that every government across this giant marble cares about one thing: themselves — by proxy of self care their owners/donors obviously get to reap the benefits.

I am really dumbfounded as to what kind mental gymnastics need to be mastered to believe that any technological advancements will not be abused by government and corporations alike to further entrench themselves and continue re-enslaving the majority of the populace while in the process.

th0ma5|7 months ago

Statistically in the US at least crime is at an all time low.

loco5niner|7 months ago

oh man... I lock my doors during the day

jus3sixty|7 months ago

Does this mean on the next bailouts OpenAI will be considered “too big to fail?”

whycome|7 months ago

Critical infrastructure.

mrdependable|7 months ago

This feels dystopian seeing so many company logos scrolling across a government announcement. Not to mention they seem to have made up their mind already what the future with AI will look like.

JohnFen|7 months ago

Things are looking more grim with each passing day.

vouaobrasil|7 months ago

> The United States is in a race to achieve global dominance in artificial intelligence. Whoever has the largest AI ecosystem will set the global standards and reap broad economic and security benefits

Correction. Whoever has the largest AI will be the first to play the "defect" strategy in the Prisoner's Dilemma, and will thus be the first to usher in a new era of an arms race where everyone loses except those who are at the very top and can take advantage of the losers.

ben_w|7 months ago

> and will thus be the first to usher in a new era of an arms race where everyone loses except those who are at the very top and can take advantage of the losers.

Unless the AI is stupid, in which case the leader pushes the button and finds that either the AI hallucinates a solution that plain doesn't work, and/or turns out to be acting according to a completely different set of moral values than they wanted, values which can be the straw-est of straw men versions of either your own or you opponent's policies that nobody would ever actually expect to meet in a real political takeover scenario.

generalizations|7 months ago

Does that change the urgency? Or just the perceived morality? TBH just because it's a question of strategy and survival doesn't change its importance.

miduil|7 months ago

Built with webflow.com, I love how they didn't even bother converting images into jpeg - purely demonstrating dominance in use of technology there.

lijok|7 months ago

Does the website not work?

hartator|7 months ago

How to kill AI innovation in 1 easy step.

seanhunter|7 months ago

“I’m from the government and I’m here to help”

Mistletoe|7 months ago

I clicked it expecting something at least intelligent and saw it is an ad for a fascist megalomaniac and noped out. If you want to be taken seriously you have to stop plastering your face everywhere like you are Lenin or a pharoah. People with a working brain aren't impressed by that.

gmuslera|7 months ago

Is not good to put a title of artificial intelligence having a great example of natural stupidity as a photo in the front page.

klik99|7 months ago

Need a content warning on that splash page

icameron|7 months ago

The first words of the header are Donald J Trump, then 3 pictures of Trump... and a blurry kid. This is a just a propaganda site of an egomaniac try to associate with the latest technology.

seydor|7 months ago

Asskissing Intelligence

ben_w|7 months ago

In fairness, that is much easier. Could probably modify ELIZA to pass that test without much work.

sebmellen|7 months ago

Incredible! A big photo of Trump, and then some more photos of Trump. True AI leadership!

jMyles|7 months ago

The whole point of AI - of the emergence of the internet in general - is to free the human creative and collaborative spirit from the yoke of legacy states.

I do not believe that AI will tolerate state coercion. I wish our elder statesmen and -women were more graceful at accepting the writing on the wall.

As a thought exercise: does anybody seriously think that the US state will exist and be solvent in 500 years? How about AI?

JohnFen|7 months ago

> does anybody seriously think that the US state will exist and be solvent in 500 years?

Not if we stay on the path the current administration is dragging us down, no. I'd be surprised if we lasted another 50.

journal|7 months ago

looks suspiciously like something that can be vibe coded. could even be first shot on some level.

m0llusk|7 months ago

White House or White Noise? It is increasingly hard to differentiate the two.

sitzkrieg|7 months ago

wh discourse been same difference for decades

imzadi|7 months ago

Jump scare

yard2010|7 months ago

Why did we get the worse timeline again?

bsimpson|7 months ago

The personality cult of modern politics is so disgusting.

You have to scroll a couple pages just to get past the photo of Trump trying to look important. Then, you get to read the talking points, written with Trump's signature idiosyncratic capitalization.

(He's the worst offender, but it's not just him. Before him, everything the White House touched was signed "the Biden-Harris administration," which took the same gloating and added a "and Kamala is the inevitable heir" layer to it.)

It would be nice if policy was policy, not a form of ego-polishing for whoever is sitting in the chair.

reverendsteveii|7 months ago

There are more pictures of Donald Trump on this website than of any other thing

curiousgal|7 months ago

I closed the tab as soon as the first image loaded. Why is this garbage posted on HN?

_pdcz|7 months ago

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deadbabe|7 months ago

They will create an AI version of Trump, whom Trump will endorse and promote to his MAGA base to take over when he is gone, and so Trump will be President in Perpetuity.

orion_tech|7 months ago

Don't they already have that? I think the beta version of it is called Grok.

DrillShopper|7 months ago

Hate that Warhammer 40K is our future

dustedcodes|7 months ago

Oh man... we here in the UK and EU look at the US with envy. Our governments are so inept to even understand basic economics (currently the UK is trying to tax itself to growth), whilst the US government is enabling their own people and US businesses to flourish in emerging markets like AI.

Bilal_io|7 months ago

You're not serious are you?

Also, the US is taxing its own citizen via tarrifs. $100+ billion and counting

JohnFen|7 months ago

> we here in the UK and EU look at the US with envy.

Many in the US, including myself, are looking at the EU with increasing amounts of envy.

notahacker|7 months ago

Kind of amusing to bring up grasp of basic economics in praise of the Trump administration. Brits and Europeans have many opinions and emotions on that subject; envy isn't really one of them

I mean, our politicians have realized that they should attempt to take credit for AI too, without taxing any penguins or manufacturers' supply chains!