From their attempt to “forgive” student loans to handing out tens or even hundreds of billions of dollars to favored groups they call disadvantaged – from distressed farmers to women and minority business owners to companies advancing “climate justice” through renewable energy production or electric vehicle development – the Biden administration clearly knows who should win and who should be ignored.

The same is true of this EO about artificial intelligence. The order inserts government bureaucrats and agencies into the development and use of AI. The administration wants to slow and restrict AI development – recommending that large AI companies come to government officials to “independently verify” the safety of their models and applications. Of course, political incentives being what they are, these evaluations of safety will be used to redirect and tweak AI models towards the priorities of the current administration and its ubiquitous “disadvantaged” groups. …

The lack of nuance on the topic of equity is mind-numbing. Furthermore, it is pedantically simplistic and erases individuals as moral agents by subsuming them under whatever group or class identity happens to be politically convenient.

[That’s true here, but that’s true of ALL “equity” policies as well. It is an attempt to set up a socialist system to redistribute goods on the basis of top-down authority and their agenda as to value and “equity.” AI is merely a buzzword to invoke a sense of fear to enable people to knuckle under to that authority, just as “climate change” is for energy policy, and so on. — Ed]