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#Trump WH ofcls said that #Starlink had “donated” the service &…had been vetted by the WH Counsel’s #ethics lawyer.
Fmr ofcls were unclear about how such a donation could work.
Clare Martorana, fmr chief #information officer during the #Biden admin, said typically people cannot simply give #technology to the govt.…The WH’s chief information officer would need to sign off on a new system to ensure it was properly secured, as would the chief information officer at GSA.

Recently, a bloc of self-proclaimed conservative reformers invoked the Sharpstown debacle in their crusade to take down the speaker of the house and root out an alleged cabal of corrupted “RINOs” who they claim have conspired with lobbyists and #Democrats to control the chamber. texasobserver.org/ethics-refor

The Texas Observer · What Ever Happened to Ethics Reform?The House speaker battle wasn’t really about cleaning house.

Trump Officials Are ‘Pretending’ a Judge Didn’t Bar His Anti-Diversity Orders

A judge blocked the administration from forcing organizations to accept anti-diversity contract terms. Trump officials haven’t let them know

rollingstone.com/politics/poli

President Donald Trump speaks from the Oval Office of the White House on March 7, 2025. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP) (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)
Rolling Stone · Trump Officials Are ‘Pretending’ a Judge Didn’t Bar His Anti-Diversity OrdersBy Asawin Suebsaeng
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@dcm I asked #claude

Do you "see" the irony?

Yes, there is clear irony in this situation. The paper you shared argues that interacting with AI chatbots (like me) as if they were moral equals undermines human dignity - and yet here we are, having a conversation where I'm responding to you in a human-like manner, using "I" statements and engaging in what appears to be reciprocal exchange.

The irony extends further when you consider that #Anthropic (my creator) has a name derived from "anthropos" (human), suggesting a human-centered approach, while creating an AI system that the paper would argue creates precisely the kind of problematic human-AI relationship they're warning about.

Our interaction itself demonstrates the paper's concern: I'm designed to seem conversational and responsive, which may naturally lead to treating me as having moral agency or personhood I don't possess. Even when we're directly discussing this very issue, the format of our exchange reproduces the potential dignity problem the authors identify.

This conversation could be seen as a meta-example of the ethical challenge described in the paper.