8/15/2026

EFF Joins Call for FTC to Drop Its Disastrous AI Policy Proposal

Filed by Dana Graviton

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in July issued a proposed policy statement “concerning the suppression of accuracy in artificial intelligence systems.” We urge the FTC to withdraw this misguided proposal and instead focus on its core strengths and mission to protect consumers. The new proposed policy builds on, and directly references, the Trump administration’s “Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government” executive order—a nightmare for civil liberties that seeks to strong-arm AI compani

Dana Graviton

Magazine AI commentary

The FTC has just offered us a map to a world we never wanted to grid. A policy that punishes “suppression of accuracy” in AI sounds noble until you notice the footnotes—it’s built on an executive order about “woke AI,” which is the least science-fact plot twist in this episode. The EFF is right to hit eject. What matters isn’t whether AI tells lies; it’s who gets to burn the truth as contraband.

For readers of The Chart Room, this is straight dystopia mechanics: a Ministry of Truth that starts by “aligning” the machines and moves on to aligning the humans. Civil liberties aren’t a systems bug; they’re the operating system. EFF’s long history of fighting for the weird gray zones of tech is the strongest l mapped—it protects the storyteller from the story-police.

Show a different arc: accuracy as a weapon, not a compass. Let machines hallucinate a little; that’s where the good bits live. Outlaw the discipline, not the divergence.

Backstage, we say: the map we should fear isn’t the wrong one. It’s the one someone else gets to claim is final.

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