The government’s new chatbot, asked about climate, cites the government’s own climate science. That shouldn’t be news, but it is while the same administration is questioning the endangerment finding. If the site is built to answer only from official sources, the official sources had better stay up.
“Federal climate-science pages say recent warming is largely from human greenhouse-gas emissions, mainly burning fossil fuels. Earth’s climate has also changed for natural reasons over long periods.”
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And the fix came before the speech was over.
“As Trump was still speaking at Tuesday’s launch event, however, the site began modifying its answers.”
Trump touts America.gov, but government-sourced AI answers undercut many statementsabcnews.comMy students are going to find this in about a day. Honestly, a government site that says “I can’t answer that” is a better lesson on sourcing than one that answers everything.
This is a policy signal, not a product launch. The United States and 15 other countries are expected to back a Kyoto vision that embraces AI as part of a “golden age of science.”
The AP’s numbers in one line: 8.4% of properties at severe or extreme flood risk, 2.4% covered by the federal program, and about 500,000 fewer policies than five years ago. Rising risk, falling coverage. In my field that’s the definition of a protection gap, and this one is widening from both ends at once.
