Is Big Tech Paying Biden AI Officials' Salaries - To Get Crony AI Policy?

On the Payroll….

I am not even a smidgen optimistic about the future of Artificial Intelligence (AI):

“AI transcends the bounds of the inanimate and the un-sentient.  We are the only self-aware beings on Earth.  That will - very soon - no longer be the case.

“That alone makes AI a potential (and I would say an inevitable) problem - far worse than even a global thermonuclear war.

“Guns and nukes can’t self-evolve.  A pistol can’t make itself into a machine gun.

“AI can self-evolve.  It can unilaterally improve its sentience.  Yikes.”

The above excerpt - is from something I wrote in May of last year….

Biggest AI Problem (for Now): The People Designing It:

“A preliminary awful aspect of AI - is some really awful people are developing it….

“(T)his nightmare dystopia will be brought to us - by the proven moral paragons that comprise Communist China and Big Tech.”

Communist China and Big Tech - are both awful.

Good news: Our DC Big Government - is also awful.  And is selling US out - to both China and Big Tech….

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And, of course, Big Tech is also selling US out to Communist China….

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And, of course, Big Gov and Big Tech are working together to sell out the US….

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Speaking of crony government policies for Big Tech….

What better way to get them - than pay the people government uses to create and craft them?

And so it appears to be - when it comes to AI….

Sen. Cruz Opens Investigation into Big Tech Funding Salaries of Biden Admin. Officials:

“Last October, President Biden issued an executive order directing federal agencies to engage in over 100 specific actions to establish AI-related guidance across various policy areas, resulting in a purported need to hire hundreds of federal employees to focus on AI.

“In April, the White House announced that the agencies had completed all required actions, yet had hired only 150 people into AI roles, calling into question how the agencies completed so much work in such a short time.”

Because Big Gov is so renowned for operating swiftly…:

“‘Moreover, as federal agencies request increased funding for AI hiring, it is important Congress understand the extent to which, and how, agencies have already acquired AI staff in response to the expansive and demanding AI Executive Order.’…

“‘To complete every action, agencies would have had to…bring on AI fellows by recruiting temporary - but influential - AI staff from external organizations through the Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) program….

“‘In effect, large AI technology companies are influencing the Biden administration’s AI policy from the inside and advancing their own anti-competitive agenda to shape the future of the AI industry.’”

Does DC have a history of such insider trading?  You bet it does….

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Now?  US government regulators may very well be favoring - their CURRENT private-sector employers.

Cruz’s statement - was issued July 9th.

I spent time this morning - July 15, almost a week afterwards - searching the Big Tech-dominated Web for any reporting on this.

I found none.  Shocker.

Which will make it inordinately difficult to find out what is actually going on.

The Washington Post’s maxim is:

“Democracy dies in darkness.”

Except The Washington Post is owned by…Amazon owner - and DC Uber-Crony - Jeff Bezos.

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Oh: And democracy was already dead for decades when WaPo in 2017 coined its slogan.

It was a cronyism-infested, Big Gov-Big Biz professional hit.