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highplainsdem

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Tue Jan 27, 2026, 08:31 PM 5 hrs ago

Trump Department Responsible for Airline Safety Using AI to Write New Regulations, So They Can Be Churned Out as Fast as

Source: Futurism

Trump Department Responsible for Airline Safety Using AI to Write New Regulations, So They Can Be Churned Out as Fast as Possible

According to a new investigation by ProPublica, the top transportation agency has tapped Google Gemini to help write new regulations affecting aviation, automotive, railroad, and maritime safety. In internal communications from DoT attorney Daniel Cohen, agency staffers were presented with the plan along with a demonstration of AI’s “potential to revolutionize the way we draft rulemakings.”

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“We don’t need the perfect rule on XYZ. We don’t even need a very good rule on XYZ,” DoT general counsel Gregory Zerzan said, according to the recent meeting notes obtained by ProPublica. “We want good enough,” he said. “We’re flooding the zone.”

In addition, Zerzan noted that enthusiasm for the DoT AI tool runs all the way to the top, noting that Donald Trump is “very excited about this initiative.”

Six DoT workers who spoke to ProPublica anonymously said that typical regulation-writing can take months, and sometimes years, due to the complications involved. But at the demonstration in December, a presenter told them Google’s Gemini could cut that down to “minutes or even seconds.”

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Read more: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/trump-regulations-ai



Idiocracy.
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Trump Department Responsible for Airline Safety Using AI to Write New Regulations, So They Can Be Churned Out as Fast as (Original Post) highplainsdem 5 hrs ago OP
What could possibly go wrong? Ocelot II 5 hrs ago #1
My 1st thought! SheltieLover 5 hrs ago #3
Idiocracy - exactly! yellow dahlia 5 hrs ago #2
They are TRYING to kill us! Chasstev365 5 hrs ago #4
"Good enough" safety. Some will die, some won't. That's good enough. Solly Mack 4 hrs ago #5
Holy shit LudwigPastorius 2 hrs ago #6
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