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10.03.2026 19:33
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What a coincidence that Jeff Clark decided to depart OIRA last week. Couldn't possibly have been the reporters calling for official comments
Gm
i just want my transparency friends to be happy
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Me: send another
My faithful adjutant: but sir, nobody is engaging with your dork-ass FOIA memes
Me: SEND. ANOTHER.
Choose life, choose sunlight, choose to come to MLK library next Thursday
A deeply embarrassing place for anyone's career to land
I just want the world to know about an organization my barber hails as "actually not totally useless"
Join the D.C. Open Government Coaltion at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 19 as we hold our annual free and open to the public #sunshineweek event at the MLK Library. We will mull the state of transparency in the District. Hint: it's not so great. Sign up here: luma.com/7mczqpqr
The DCOGC Sunshine Summit posts will continue until morale improves. March 19! My barber is coming! A wizard will be there! We may give you a cool button!
Unredact your life, come talk about public records. See board member Tom Susman in a funny hat maybe
The DCOGC Sunshine Summit posts will continue until morale improves. March 19! My barber is coming! A wizard will be there! We may give you a cool button!
This is really great stuff, thanks for making the litigation records available. I'm doing some work around other doge teams and this is excellent reference material. Is there a larger set of records that didn't make the list of key materials for the website you'd be willing to share?
Shrimp fisheries propaganda
Everybody comes from someplace!
You are correct
Come to the @dcogc.bsky.social Sunshine Summit on March 19 at MLK Library! luma.com/7mczqpqr
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AI chatbots with programmed bias have replaced the civil service. AI sets policy, filters public input, and decides reality from within a black box. Today we, with our client @peer.org, are using FOIA to break into that black box 1/x
Today, PEER filed a series of Freedom of Information Act requests with EPA seeking records related to the use of AI within its workforce and regulatory programs.
https://ow.ly/o34650YpFro
#AI #FOIA
We intend to make these requests a model for researchers and journalists looking at AI in other agencies, how they tick, and who gets to decide that. We will be placing the requests on our website and I am happy to discuss their methodology with anyone who is interested in filing their own
That's why it is so necessary to poke around a little bit to see how these systems are actually influencing agency science. Here's our three main tranches, focusing on chemical safety, AI bias, and workplace surveillance.
At EPA, these programs are being used to organize and direct chemical safety reviews. Amazon has been bragging about it. But not about how they actually work. aws.amazon.com/blogs/public....
in March, the Trump Administration’s NIST removed “AI safety,” “responsible AI,” and “AI fairness” from the list of expected skills for members of the US Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute (“AISI”). It also redefined "bias" to mean "says things the white house doesn't like"
The uncanny magic of AI is its scientific-sounding solutions that read naturally to laypersons. Political appointees are generalists: they direct the work of experts to fulfill political directives. When the experts disagree, they turn to the chatbot. The chatbot always says yes
As we've heard from MIT, "95% of organizations are getting zero return" on their investment into AI deployments. But when you are trying to deface government, zero return is the intended value. mlq.ai/media/quarte... (mirror link)
Study after study shows these tools increase bias, worsen decisional quality, damage office morale, and give organizational leaders delusions of grandeur about their effects. They don't speed anything up but mistakes and consequences
These tools are reflections of agency policy written in code. Their system prompts and config files dictate outcomes more than policy memos or executive orders possibly could. But we have not seen them. But FOIA grants a right to know what our government is up to.
Agency AI tools spy on employees, slant decisionmaking, filter undesirable and inconvenient scientific studies, and ignore public comments on rulemaking. Trump's "AI Action Plan" to "reject radical climate dogma" cannot fairly set policy, but it is every day.
AI chatbots with programmed bias have replaced the civil service. AI sets policy, filters public input, and decides reality from within a black box. Today we, with our client @peer.org, are using FOIA to break into that black box 1/x
Reporting isn't doxxing
Public records aren't espionage
MyPillow isn't a newspaper
Particularly surprised we have to argue that last point