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The US government wants AI in every corner of government, but the unstoppable force of new tech is running into the immovable object of bureaucracy - a growing mass of AI rules. It's been well established in the first year of Trump's second presidency that AI is a priority for the administration. Even prior to Trump taking …

  1. Gene Cash Silver badge

    Enough to hold it back

    You say that like it's a bad thing. This is one time the snarl of gov't rules is actually helping.

  2. amanfromMars 1 Silver badge

    What Price the Risk of Zero 0Day Alien Interventions .... AWEsome Incursions .. 911 Revisited

    "AI is rapidly growing and holds substantial promise for improving the government," GAO's director of IT and cybersecurity Kevin Walsh told The Register in an email. "But AI technologies also pose risks.”

    Is/Are AI and IntelAIgent SMARTR Systems* and Virtual LLLLMs** replacing inept and corrupt political party governments the real unspoken risk and long planned for AWE***some ethereal existential threat that futures and derivatives and options markets fear ...... and which humanity ignores at their peril ..... because of its surprisingly honest likelihood and the rapid disruptive inevitability of the exercise of their almighty destructive and/or creative abilities and useful facility ..... which is your present current and unfolding 0day running reality to hasten and augment with every hesitation to engage with and employ or to think to oppose and try to attack in any vain and hopeless attempt to stop revolutionary evolutionary progress in its tracks?

    The advisory here is that it certainly is ..... and it runs sublimely rampant and prime supreme ..... and is beyond any regular exclusive means of conventional and traditional human command and control.

    * and **.... IntelAIgent SMARTR Mentoring Analysis Reporting Titanic Research Systems and Virtual Learned Large Language Learning Machines

    *** ..... Advanced Warfighting Experiment ........https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA353454.pdf

  3. Anonymous Coward
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    Never thought I would say this...

    Bureaucracy to the rescue !

  4. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Yup

    "the unstoppable force of new tech is running into the immovable object of bureaucracy - a growing mass of AI rules."

    As I have previously mentioned and commenter's on here seemingly positive about that. The reg seems to be a very pro-regulation place on other subjects too.

    1. MonkeyJuice Silver badge

      Re: Yup

      "All regulation is bad!" he screamed, as he sipped from his glass of Thames Water with a stool floating in it, and his bank account was drained by unaddressed remote code vulnerabilities that his bank did not refund, but wrote off in their annual expenses under the 'Operational Losses' column.

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Stop

        Re: Yup

        @MonkeyJuice

        ""All regulation is bad!" he screamed, as he sipped from his glass of Thames Water with a stool floating in it."

        Damn dude you didnt have to prove my point so hard. Does Kim Jong tell you how to cut your hair?

        1. MonkeyJuice Silver badge
          Holmes

          Re: Yup

          I'm just going to let you re-read our exchange and let it settle in.

          Keep on winning, champ.

          1. Anonymous Coward
            FAIL

            Re: Yup

            @MonkeyJuice

            "I'm just going to let you re-read our exchange and let it settle in."

            I have and again you really dont have to prove my point so hard. Which Kim Jong hairstyle did you pick?

            1. MonkeyJuice Silver badge

              Re: Yup

              [You have died of dysentery]

              1. ChodeMonkey
                Trollface

                Re: Yup

                Such exaggeration, Sir!

                How could anyone (of standing) die of water born illness in modern England? Bottled water is available everywhere!

                1. MachDiamond Silver badge

                  Re: Yup

                  "Bottled water is available everywhere!"

                  And, the bottles are everywhere too.

  5. amanfromMars 1 Silver badge

    Meanwhile, elsewhere ... in any number of not so evidently top secret lairs and seedy dives .....

    Methinks, if one so dares to care and share win wins, the unstoppable force of new tech is running riot and rings around the immovable object of bureaucracy - and its growing mass of AI rules.

  6. MachDiamond Silver badge

    It's systemic

    The US is rife with overlapping regulatory agencies. Things such as environmental regulations might involve 6 or more State, Federal and local mobs that all have they own reporting requirements, forms and qualifications. Some companies have departments that do nothing but track the every changing laws, prepare reports and host surprise inspections. It's one of the reasons that Fender guitars made at their California factory are so much more expensive than the music store models they make in Mexico. The quality is certainly better since the custom shop is dedicated to the best they can make, but to spray lacquer for a top quality hard finish takes stacks of forms. The low quality water-based coatings just aren't the same so there isn't a point to building a really great guitar and putting a crap finish on it. The air coming from Fender's paint shop is cleaner leaving the factory than it was going in, but that doesn't stop surprise inspections that shut down the line with no notice for compliance testing from any one of a handful of agencies.

  7. Deanamore

    Only good thing about gen AI is that it replaced all the NFT slop articles.

    1. herman Silver badge

      Heaven help us if the Bored Ape NFTs become sentient due to AI.

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