> but it this a bad thing?

I think the worry is that there’s no fixed definitions here, so the executive can use this to exert partisan or ideological pressure on model providers.

Every four years the models get RLHF’d to switch between thinking guns are amazing vs thinking guns are terrible.

> Every four years the models get RLHF’d to switch between thinking guns are amazing vs thinking guns are terrible.

I may be naive, but on this specific case, I am hoping that an AI could lead us to a somewhat objective truth. There seems to be enough data points to make some conclusion here. For example, most/all counties in Europe have less gun violence than the US, but there are at least two EU counties with high gun ownership (Finland and Austria) that also have low gun violence. The gun ownership issue is so polarized these days, I don’t think we can trust most people to make reason based arguments about it. Maybe an AI could help us synthesize and interpret the data dispassionately.