Biden’s AI plan to develop censorship tools revealed (nypost.com)

At MIT, one researcher told NSF officials “broad swaths of the public cannot effectively sort truth from fiction online.”

The researcher specifically called out “military veterans, older adults, military families” and those in “rural and indigenous communities” as particularly vulnerable to believing misinformation.

At the University of Michigan, one researcher who received millions suggested one possible outcome of the research was outsourcing content “moderation” decisions from social media platforms to government officials.

“Our misinformation service helps policy makers at platforms who want to… push responsibility for difficult judgments to someone outside the company… by externalizing the difficult responsibility of censorship,” a researcher at the University of Michigan’ said in a pitch to the NSF.

Researchers say people who think for themselves, and research topics online are deluding themselves. Instead, we must trust the Experts who are always correct. We can only trust ideas originating from the technocratic elite with a PhD. If you do not have a doctorate (and possibly even if you do but are not connected to the right institution or groupthink), then your ideas are misinformation.

I pointed out a year ago that one of the larger threats of AI content generation is that people will cite AI as an authority, even when the information is completely wrong.