{"id":1979661,"date":"2023-07-21T15:43:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T19:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-to-showcase-democratic-megadonor-reid-hoffmans-ai-startup\/"},"modified":"2023-07-21T15:44:26","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T19:44:26","slug":"white-house-to-showcase-democratic-megadonor-reid-hoffmans-ai-startup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-to-showcase-democratic-megadonor-reid-hoffmans-ai-startup\/","title":{"rendered":"White House to feature Reid Hoffman&#8217;s AI startup, backed by Democratic megadonor."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhite-house-to-showcase-democratic-megadonor-reid-hoffmans-ai-startup%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1979661&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<h2>The White House Showcases AI Firm Founded by\u2064 Jeffrey Epstein Associate<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The White House on Friday will \u2064showcase an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/from-impeaching-incitement-to-canceling-conservatism\/\" title=\"From Impeaching Incitement to Canceling Conservatism\">artificial intelligence<\/a> firm founded by Jeffrey Epstein associate Reid Hoffman, giving a\u2063 high-profile boost\u2063 to the Democratic megadonor\u2019s tech startup.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stopthebigboxbaitandswitch.com\/?utm_source=freebeacon&#038;utm_medium=advertising&#038;utm_campaign=2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stopthebigboxbaitandswitch.com\/?utm_source=freebeacon&#038;utm_medium=advertising&#038;utm_campaign=2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>Hoffman\u2019s Co-founder to Attend White House Summit<\/h3>\n<p>Hoffman\u2019s co-founder at Inflection AI <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/07\/21\/business\/biden-ai-safety-meta-openai-google-microsoft.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">will attend<\/a> \u2063a White House summit alongside executives from Google, Microsoft, and \u200bother AI companies to announce\u2063 an initiative to promote the development of artificial intelligence while \u200c&#8221;manag[ing] the risks&#8221;\u2062 posed \u200bby the technology.<\/p>\n<p>The\u200c summit provides \u200ca major boost to \u2063Inflection AI, which Hoffman \u2064founded \u2063last year with former Google executive Mustafa\u200d Suleyman. Other companies represented at the summit have been in business for\u200d years.\u2063 OpenAI, which operates \u200bChatGPT, was founded in \u200c2015. Inflection\u2063 AI, which\u200b recently <a href=\"https:\/\/news.crunchbase.com\/ai-robotics\/funding-explosion-venture-generative-ai-unicorn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">raised<\/a> $1.3 billion in funding, launched its chatbot in May.<\/p>\n<h3>White House Access and\u200d Hoffman&#8217;s Support for Democrats<\/h3>\n<p>Inflection AI\u2019s White House access \u2062is perhaps a testament to Hoffman\u2019s extensive support \u2062for\u2064 Democrats. \u2064Hoffman, the co-founder of LinkedIn, contributed over \u2062$700,000 to the Biden campaign and the Biden\u200c Victory\u200d Fund in April, according to campaign finance\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fec.gov\/data\/receipts\/?data_type=processed&#038;contributor_name=hoffman%2C+reid&#038;two_year_transaction_period=2024&#038;min_date=01%2F01%2F2023&#038;max_date=12%2F31%2F2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">records<\/a>. He also gave $41,300 to the Democratic National Committee. That\u2019s in \u2063addition to the tens\u2063 of millions of dollars Hoffman has given to other \u200bDemocratic\u200b groups \u2063over the years.<\/p>\n<h3>Controversies Surrounding Hoffman<\/h3>\n<p>The White \u2062House will partner with Hoffman\u2019s firm even as \u200bthe billionaire has been at the center of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-to-showcase-democratic-megadonor-reid-hoffmans-ai-startup\/\" title=\"White House to feature Reid Hoffman's AI startup, backed by Democratic megadonor.\">multiple high-profile \u2063scandals<\/a>. Hoffman hosted a dinner with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein in 2014 and visited his home in New York City in 2015. Hoffman has said he regrets the meetings \u2064and has apologized\u200d for helping repair Epstein\u2019s \u200dreputation.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, Hoffman\u2064 funded a technology startup that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-liberal-truth-brigade-has-ties-to-billionaire-who-peddled-disinformation\/\" title=\"New Liberal \u2018Truth Brigade\u2019 Has Ties to Billionaire Who Peddled Disinformation\">created fake social media personas<\/a>\u200d in \u2064order to dissuade \u2064conservatives from voting in\u200d a special Senate election \u200cin Alabama. Vulnerability to \u2062political \u2064disinformation has been a concern about AI as the technology develops. President Biden\u2019s nominee to lead the National Security \u2063Agency <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/07\/20\/intelligence-chief-nominee-warns-of-threats-from-ai-to-2024-elections-00107375\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">warned<\/a> last week \u200bthat artificial intelligence technology\u2063 poses\u200b a \u200bthreat to next year&#8217;s presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Hoffman\u2019s involvement in the AI startup may also raise conflict of interest\u200d concerns. Hoffman serves on the Defense Innovation Board, which advises the Pentagon on the application of \u200bnew technologies for military use. \u2062The board <a href=\"https:\/\/innovation.defense.gov\/Portals\/63\/documents\/Recommendations\/Technology%20and%20Capabilities%20-%20Recommendation%205%20Catalyze%20Innovations%20in%20Artificial.pdf?ver=2020-09-08-121955-510\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has focused heavily<\/a> on AI and has issued recommendations for the\u2063 Pentagon \u200bto embrace the\u2064 technology.<\/p>\n<h3>Concerns About Inflection AI&#8217;s Technology<\/h3>\n<p>There is also cause for concern that Inflection AI\u2019s technology is lagging behind\u2064 its competitors. A <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/is-that-a-real-thing-reid-hoffmans-ai-chatbot-says-the-democratic-megadonor-never-met-jeffrey-epstein\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">analysis<\/a> of the Inflection AI chatbot found that it inaccurately denied that Hoffman had a relationship with Epstein.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stopthebigboxbaitandswitch.com\/?utm_source=freebeacon&#038;utm_medium=advertising&#038;utm_campaign=2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stopthebigboxbaitandswitch.com\/?utm_source=freebeacon&#038;utm_medium=advertising&#038;utm_campaign=2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Pi, Inflection AI&#8217;s chatbot, repeatedly denied that Hoffman \u2064had ever met Epstein and suggested that reports about their meetings \u2062were &#8220;based on false information.&#8221; The chatbot praised Hoffman &#8220;for his philanthropy and his commitment to social\u200c justice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The White House did not respond to a request for\u2062 comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House will highlight an AI firm founded by Reid Hoffman, an associate of Jeffrey Epstein, on Friday. This move will provide significant support to the Democratic megadonor&#8217;s tech startup. At a White House summit, executives from Google, Microsoft, and other AI companies will join Inflection AI&#8217;s co-founder to announce an initiative promoting the field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":1979662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1979661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1979661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1979662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1979661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1979661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1979661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}