Google CEO Pledged to Use AI to Combat Trumpism

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TownHall

Google’s fiasco with its artificial intelligence program is emblematic of an issue simmering at the tech giant. It’s not a new story. It dates to—you guessed it—the 2016 election. The rollout of Gemini has been something of a trainwreck. Its image creator refused to generate any images of white people, whereas the AI prompt couldn’t say with certainty that Adolf Hitler was a worse individual than Elon Musk. What’s worse, AI—Hitler killing millions in the Holocaust or Musk posting memes? It couldn’t answer, which led to data crunchers, like Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight, calling for Gemini's shutdown. CEO Sundar Pichai apologized for the controversy, saying, “I know that some of its responses have offended our users and shown bias – to be clear, that’s completely unacceptable, and we got it wrong.”

Says the man who wants to use AI to combat Trumpism.

Michael Shellenberger has a new series out on his Substack that delves into Google, AI, and the tech giant’s campaign to twist public opinion to hurt Republicans in elections (via Public😞

…after a Google employee suggested that Trump won due to “misinformation” and “fake news coming from fake news websites being shared by millions of low-information voters on social media,” Pichai specifically pointed to the use of artificial intelligence to achieve the aim of countering “misinformation.” 

“I think our investments in machine learning and AI is a big opportunity here,” he said. Machine learning is a form of AI. :snip: