Artificial Intelligence is still pretty new tech and has a lot of room for mistakes ... which might explain why legendary baseball player and civil rights hero Jackie Robinson's story about his time in the U.S. Army got pulled from the Department of Defense website, according to one U.S. congressman.
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00:00A lot of people are saying they're kind of tired of hearing the word, oops, uh, we made
00:07a mistake rather than doing this broad sweep.
00:12Whenever something comes up with black or gay or native American, rather than doing
00:17a broad sweep and then saying, oh yeah, we made a mistake there.
00:22We'll bring it back.
00:23Why aren't they doing it the proper way?
00:25They're using AI and the algorithm to come in and try to detect what they put in with
00:34the formula as anything pertaining to DEI hiring.
00:37When you try to take on something as vast as the government, specifically the Pentagon,
00:42and you have that one formula entered in for the AI to detect, you're going to make some
00:48mistakes.
00:49And I think it's normal to go back in and restore the mistakes.
00:52They made the mistake for pulling the Jackie Robinson thing off.
00:55They told me they're going to restore that.
00:57One of the mistakes that I've heard President Trump say he made when he first got elected
01:01the first time was that he took things in steps.
01:05And a lot of times what he wanted to achieve didn't get achieved because he was always
01:10battling with the bureaucracy.
01:12So they're coming in this other time.
01:14There's going to be mistakes made, but to the president's credit, when they make a mistake,
01:18they say, oh, we made a mistake.
01:19We're going to try to fix it.
01:20Why are they even applying this AI program to things that have happened already?
01:26That this is history that actually happened.
01:29So why is there even an effort to try and remove anything from the archives?
01:35I mean, if you want to talk about going forward, we are not going to hire based on DEI.
01:40That's a different debate.
01:41Which, by the way, is exactly why Trump says keep the Confederate statues, because you
01:45don't want to erase history.
01:47Why not here, too?
01:48Right.
01:49If history is being applied to these things, it should never be coming up.
01:52They shouldn't have to be saying, oops, just leave it the way it happened.
01:55It's history.
01:56It actually happened.
01:58And those people served their country valiantly in most cases.
02:03Why is there even an effort to look at any of that?
02:06I don't think they intended to do that.
02:08Going back to his first administration, the mistakes that he has publicly said he made
02:12was he depended on the bureaucracy and the bureaucrats to comply with his executive orders.
02:18And in many cases, they didn't do that.
02:20So what he's trying to do this time is, and with the help of Musk, is use AI technology
02:27to, on day one, eliminate that.
02:30Now, it's everything that I've heard Pete Hedgespeth say, and I haven't talked to him
02:34specifically about this, but I've seen interviews in anticipation of this interview, interviews
02:40that he did, that they're trying to restore anything that pertained to the history.
02:45They just want to make sure that from this point on, the military people are being promoted
02:52on merit.
02:53There's just a lot of cleaning up to do in the federal government.
02:58They're trying to use this AI technology.
03:00It's new technology, and it's going to make mistakes.
03:03But I believe they're sincere when they say they want to restore anything pertaining to
03:08black history or women history or anything else that was previously on the website.
03:14You have to input something to get AI to respond.
03:19And unless I'm really on the wrong step here, somebody is typing in the word black, Native
03:26American, women, gay, and then just saying, just find them all.
03:32That feels racist and homophobic to me.
03:34I think that's a good question.
03:35I think they should have to answer that.
03:37But at the end of the day, if you look at President Trump's record, Pete Hedgespeth's
03:42record, I don't think there's any history of racism with anything that Donald Trump's
03:47done or any of his administration done, and they certainly don't want to portray that.
03:52Fortunately, the federal law prohibits anyone from discriminating.
03:55If you discriminate against someone in the military or in any government agency based
04:01on race or sex, then that employee is going to win a lawsuit, and the person that discriminated
04:10is going to be held accountable.
04:12So there are protections in place.
04:14You have personnel boards in every government agency.
04:16I don't know what they plugged in.
04:18I think that's a good question.
04:19I think they should answer that question.
04:20I think if enough people ask them that question, they will answer the question.
04:24But at the end of the day, where the mistakes were made with respect to scrubbing the Tuskegee
04:29Airmen and Jackie Robinson, they publicly stated they're in the process of trying to
04:34get that put back up.