Stakeholders sort through issues raised by ‘woke AI’ provisions in Trump order

Industry observers say they detect a welcome degree of flexibility in President Trump’s executive order on “preventing woke AI” in federal systems and in the new artificial intelligence action plan’s “ideological bias” provisions, but public-interest and other stakeholders argue the evaluation science lags well behind what the administration wants to accomplish.

In addition to constitutional and political issues raised by the administration’s campaign against “woke AI,” there are also “a couple of classes of technical challenges,” commented Amy Winecoff of...