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A federal agency is pondering whether artificial intelligence might someday be used to help the government identify duplicative or overly burdensome federal rules that need to be cut back.
But officials are already hearing from skeptics who doubt AI will ever be powerful enough to wade through and understand the hundreds of thousands of pages of detailed federal rules.
The Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS) is an independent federal agency that works to increase the efficiency and fairness of regulations. In early May, ACUS released a report it commissioned on how AI and other algorithmic tools might be used to conduct retrospective reviews of federal rules to improve them.
That report said AI might already be able to conduct “housekeeping” chores, such as finding typos or incorrect citations but said AI might also be trained to do much more.
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A federal agency is looking into how AI might be used to assess and possibly make recommendations on federal regulations. (Leon Neal/Code of Federal Regulations)
“A tool could identify regulations that are either outdated or redundant with another rule,” the report said, even as it acknowledged the challenges of this work. “Both of these inquiries may not have an objective correct answer: A regulation might be old, but is it obsolete? A rule’s text or regulated activity might overlap with another’s, but is one superfluous?
“An algorithm performing even more substantive tasks might identify existing regulations it believes could benefit from clarification or are overly burdensome,” it added. “These are both arguably completely subjective inquiries: When is a regulation too complex or burdensome?”
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