Exclusive | Threat of mass AI-powered government censorship is on the rise, ominous House panel report shows

The federal government is laying the foundation for draconian artificial intelligence tools to monitor civilian protests and stifle dissent, a new congressional report has ominously warned.“The executive branch of the federal government has poured millions of taxpayer dollars into the development of AI-powered tools to mass monitor and censor content, leading to the censorship of protected speech,” according to a new report from the House Subcommittee on Government Weaponization, which was shared exclusively with The Post.As a warning of what could come, the report cited examples of AI being used to power censorship abroad, including the dissenting views expressed about COVID-19 lockdowns and mitigation measures in the United Kingdom and Canada that culminated with the trucker’s protest in Ottawa more than two years ago.The US allies allegedly partnered with Logically.AI to keep tabs on and stifle pandemic-related protests.But closer to home, President Biden’s executive actions demanding companies root out biases in their artificial intelligence may have led to the recent firestorm over Google Gemini AI chatbot’s image generator.The feature was ridiculed as “woke” for its initial reluctance to create images of white people, including when directed to portray the pope, Vikings and even George Washington.“Testimony from Alphabet employees and nonpublic internal company documents confirm that the Biden-Harris White House … and other federal agencies had engaged with the company on so-called ‘responsible AI’ innovation and may have been the impetus behind Google’s decision” in developing that model, the report states.“The Biden-Harris Administration has regulated new AI models directly and indirectly, pressuring private companies to ‘advance equity,’ stop ‘algorithmic discrimination,’ and ‘mitigate the production of harmful and biased outputs,’” it concludes.“These regulations provide the means for the federal government to mo...