That order tells agencies to procure only models that do not “sacrifice truthfulness and accuracy to ideological agendas”. Image: Tada Images/Shutterstock.com
By: FEDweek StaffOMB is holding a series of “ listening sessions to learn more from industry about their approaches to AI transparency and auditable risk management,” in preparation for issuing new guidance under President Trump’s July executive order on “preventing woke AI in the federal government,” says a statement on cio.gov.
That order tells agencies to procure only models that do not “sacrifice truthfulness and accuracy to ideological agendas” and do not “intentionally encode partisan or ideological judgments” in their output “unless those judgments are prompted by or otherwise readily accessible to the end user.”
“Participants in this series include major large language model (LLM) developers as well as third party deployers who integrate LLMs into their products,” the statement says.
Topics for the listening sessions include (in its words): the specific categories of risk that organizations monitor for; pre-training criteria and methods to reduce identified risks as well as the post-training classifiers or similar rules that have been integrated; continuous monitoring capabilities to detect unwanted model behavior and what documentation and intervention looks like; and how organizations currently address the topics of ideological neutrality and truth-seeking, as presented in EO 14319.
Also: whether any instructions are shared with a model when producing information about sensitive or political topics; whether organizations have needed to update or alter any products to meet compliance with new state-level or national-level AI regulation; and whether downstream integrators of AI models are satisfied with the level of transparency they receive from developers to meet regulatory reporting requirements.
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