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Pentagon blames AI

2025-03-24 03:05:21.015209+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Trump administration blames removal of Black and Latino veteran content on AI

"We enforced an aggressive timeline for our DOD services and agencies to comb through a vast array of content, while ensuring that our force remains ready and lethal," said Sean Parnell, U.S. Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, when discussing President Donald Trump's administration's efforts to eliminate all content it considers DEI from federal agencies. Parnell admitted that, "Every now and then, because of the realities of AI tools and other software, some important content was incorrectly pulled offline to be reviewed."

Pentagon Says It's Using AI to Delete Pages About History That's Too Woke

Pentagon admits to mistakes in campaign against ‘DEI’ content

Articles and images about Jackie Robinson and the Navajo Code Talkers were removed from Defense Department social media and websites.

And, apparently, Betty White (also).

It's pretty plain here that the "mistake" was "got caught being super hella racist". And it's also plain that AI is being used as a crumple zone here, although AI is gonna be super hella racist because of its training corpus.

Also, reminded of that IBM slide from 1979: "A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision." "AI" is being used as a crumple zone here.

[ related topics: Software Engineering Current Events Journalism and Media Artificial Intelligence Race Gambling ]

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