The Biden administration is actively seeking to use artificial intelligence to promote a woke, progressive ideology with left-wing activists leading the effort, according to research from a conservative watchdog group.
The American Accountability Foundation conducted research into the administration’s plans for AI and is now warning in a memo that top U.S. officials under President Biden are seeking to inject “dangerous ideologies” into AI systems.
“Under the guise of fighting ‘algorithmic discrimination’ and ‘harmful bias,’ the Biden administration is trying to rig AI to follow the woke left’s rules,” AAF president Tom Jones told Fox News Digital. “Biden is being advised on technology policy, not by scientists, but by racially obsessed social academics and activists. We’re already seen the biggest tech firms in the world, like Google under Eric Schmidt, use their power to push the left’s agenda. This would take the tech/woke alliance to a whole new, truly terrifying level.”
In its memo, AAF cited several examples of what it described as the administration’s campaign to make AI woke.
One example is the “Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights” released by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy last October. The document warns of “algorithmic discrimination” in which AI systems treat people differently based on their race, sex or other characteristics and calls for data “used as part of system development or assessment” to be “reviewed for bias based on the historical and societal context of the data.”
To address such concerns, the blueprint recommends “proactive equity assessments as part of the system design,” among other steps.
Arati Prabhakar, director of Biden’s Office of Science and Technology Policy, while speaking at the Summit for Democracy in March, touted Biden’s signing of an executive order the prior month that, in her words, “promotes data equity,” directs agencies to fight “algorithmic discrimination” and ensures these agencies use AI to advance “equity.”
That executive order, which Biden signed in February, states one of its goals is to “root out bias in the design and use of new technologies, such as artificial intelligence.”
