AI BriefingTrump Administration Moves to Strip Away AI Regulations
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It has emerged that the Trump administration used an AI tool called SweetREX to push forward not only the deletion of regulations but also the drafting of legislation.
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According to government documents, the Trump administration considered using an AI tool called SweetREX to heavily filter out and delete regulations.
The tool was designed to target for removal regulations that increase business costs, rules that limit innovation, and provisions containing race-based classifications, among others.
According to the documents, the goal was not simple review but a strong-handed regulatory reduction at the level of so-called “regulation extermination,” and in some cases it was even conceived to be tasked with drafting new federal regulations.
The program was also reportedly guided to process more than 100,000 public comments within 30 minutes.
The democracy advocacy group Democracy Forward said that records obtained through FOIA revealed what shortcuts this AI tool takes when determining whether a regulation is legally necessary and how its burden compares to the public benefit.
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