Huh.
From TechStartups, April 6:
“As you know, the National Archive is the country’s record keeper. Given the fact that many of the permanent records of the Federal Government are inherently biased, the majority of the records were created by people in power.”
Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, artificial intelligence (AI) has been dominating the headlines and the popular OpenAI chatbot tool has garnered over 100 million users in such a short time. However, the idea of AI has been around for several decades. The earliest work on AI can be traced back to the 1940s when researchers like Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts started developing mathematical models of neural networks.
Fast forward seven decades later, AI has permeated every facet of our lives. AI is now used in many applications including AI-powered virtual assistants like Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa, and Google Assistant, image and speech recognition, fraud detection, medical diagnosis, and autonomous cars, among others. But the use of AI is not limited to industries. AI technology has also found its way into government institutions. US agency like the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is using AI for tax fraud detection.
The US National Archives is also exploring the use of AI to assist the potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to improve what it described as an “unsophisticated search’ and create ‘self-describing records.” That’s not all. The agency is going a step further in its use of AI.
As US Congressman Thomas Massie noted, the “Chief Innovation Officer of the National Archives talks about using Artificial Intelligence to rewrite history to eliminate the “inherent bias” in the existing records.”....
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“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”—George Orwell, 1984
And the lesser known passage:
“[T]he Party member, like the proletarian, tolerates present-day conditions because he has no standards of comparison. He must be cut off from the past, just as he must be cut off from foreign countries, because it is necessary for him to believe that he is better off than his ancestors and that the average level of material comfort is constantly rising.”
