{"id":186200,"date":"2024-03-28T04:24:37","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T09:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/nsf-paid-universities-to-develop-ai-censorship-tools-for-social-media"},"modified":"2024-03-28T04:24:37","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T09:24:37","slug":"nsf-paid-universities-to-develop-ai-censorship-tools-for-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/nsf-paid-universities-to-develop-ai-censorship-tools-for-social-media","title":{"rendered":"NSF Paid Universities To Develop AI Censorship Tools For Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nsf-paid-universities-to-develop-ai-censorship-tools-for-social-media.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>University of Michigan, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and MIT are among the universities cited in the House Judiciary Committee and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government <a href=\"https:\/\/judiciary.house.gov\/sites\/evo-subsites\/republicans-judiciary.house.gov\/files\/evo-media-document\/NSF-Staff-Report_Appendix.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\">interim report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It details the foundation\u2019s \u201c<strong>funding of AI-powered censorship and propaganda tools, and its repeated efforts to hide its actions and avoid political and media scrutiny.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNSF has been issuing multi-million-dollar grants to university and non-profit research teams\u201d for the purpose of developing AI-powered technologies \u201cthat can be used by governments and Big Tech to shape public opinion by restricting certain viewpoints or promoting others,\u201d states the report, released last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Michigan, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and MIT are among the universities cited in the House Judiciary Committee and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government interim report. It details the foundation\u2019s \u201cfunding of AI-powered censorship and propaganda tools, and its repeated efforts to hide its actions and avoid political and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}