🗞 OpenAI's White House AI Plan and Musk's Government Worker Replacement Initiative

🔎 The Latest on the AI Frontier:

• OpenAI Proposes US AI Action Plan to White House

• Musk's AI Initiative Aims to Replace Government Workers

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🏛️ OpenAI shares proposals for the U.S. AI Action Plan with the White House, building on their Economic Blueprint to strengthen America's AI leadership

• Recommends a holistic regulatory approach that protects innovation while neutralizing potential benefits to China from overly burdensome state laws.

• Proposes an export control strategy applying a commercial growth lens to promote global adoption of American AI systems while protecting the U.S. AI lead.

• Advocates for infrastructure investment to create hundreds of thousands of jobs, modernize the energy grid, and prepare an AI-ready workforce to compete with China.

🤖 Elon Musk plans to use AI to manage and replace US government workers, raising serious concerns from experts about transparency, accountability, and efficacy

• Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has fired "tens of thousands of federal government employees" and is using AI to analyze weekly performance reports from remaining workers to determine who keeps their jobs.

• Experts call this a "very bad idea," with University of Michigan professor Shobita Parthasarathy warning: "We don't know anything about how an AI would make such decisions, the data on which such decisions would be based, or why we should believe it is trustworthy."

• Previous government AI implementations have gone wrong - including Michigan's unemployment system that wrongfully accused thousands of fraud, leading to arrests and bankruptcies before the state admitted fault and refunded $21 million to affected residents.

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