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Lawmakers press OSTP on federal procurement rules and model evaluation after reports of biased LLMs
Summary
Senators pressed OSTP Director Michael Kratios on how the administration will ensure federal agencies do not procure large language models that produce hate speech or ideologically driven outputs, and asked when the administration’s guidance on ‘truth‑seeking and accurate’ models will be released and enforced.
Senators at the Sept. 17 hearing pressed White House OSTP Director Michael Kratios for concrete enforcement of the administration’s procurement standards that require federally procured AI models to be "truth seeking and accurate." Several senators cited examples of large language models producing hate speech and asked whether those models should be disqualified from federal contracts.
"The president wrote about it explicitly in the woke AI executive order," Kratios said, referring to executive‑branch procurement guidance directing the Office of Management and Budget to craft standards…
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