ProPublica tells us that Lumberjack / Road Ruler Sean Duffy is looking to Fancy Autocomplete to draft rules and regulations:
“The Transportation Department, which oversees the safety of airplanes, cars and pipelines, plans to use Google Gemini to draft new regulations. ‘We don’t need the perfect rule,” said DOT’s top lawyer. ‘We want good enough.’”
And my life flashed before my eyes.
“The plan was presented to DOT staff last month at a demonstration of AI’s “potential to revolutionize the way we draft rulemakings,” agency attorney Daniel Cohen wrote to colleagues. The demonstration, Cohen wrote, would showcase “exciting new AI tools available to DOT rule writers to help us do our job better and faster.”
Exciting doesn’t begin to cover it.
”[Gregory Zerzan, the agency’s general counsel] appeared interested mainly in the quantity of regulations that AI could produce, not their quality. “We don’t need the perfect rule on XYZ. We don’t even need a very good rule on XYZ,” he said, according to the meeting notes. “We want good enough.” Zerzan added, “We’re flooding the zone.”
And I will flood my seat.
