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DOGE Plan to Push AI Across the US Federal Government is Wildly Dangerous

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Submitted ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨btaf45@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.techpolicy.press/doge-plan-to-push-ai-across-the-us-federal-government-is-wildly-dangerous/

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  • Polderviking@feddit.nl ⁨10⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    I knew this was his endgame. Prepare to go full “Minority Report”.

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  • coherent_domain@infosec.pub ⁨51⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Well at least there is no clear conflict of interest /s

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  • aaron@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Musk’s various ponzi schemes - up to the Artemis-killing SpaceX fiasco, were coming due. Trump provided the opportunity for him to pivot into government, making himself too big to fail.

    It will severely weaken the US. Those to blame are all those that never called him out throughout his rise.

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  • NovaOG@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    All of DOGE “plans” seem like shit that was cooked up by immature teenagers and drug addled brains, because they are.

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    • JustJack23@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Elon and his team of ketamin demons

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    • random_character_a@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Looks like Musk is using the Japanize “drying river”-model that’s like starter lever shit in economics. Doing that on a society level is insanely stupid.

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  • voracitude@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Here’s how you know it’s not ready: AI hasn’t replaced a single CEO.

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    • taiyang@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Man, I want you be at that shareholder meeting; “how about we just don’t have a CEO and pocket the savings?”

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      • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        Then they’ll replace the board with AI. Guess who will control the AI?

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    • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This is a better start Image

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  • DaddleDew@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    McDonald’s couldn’t even get AI to take drive-through orders properly. Musk wants it to run the government.

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    • floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That’s because he and his kind believe government is useless and can just be broken without losing anything important. From their point of view, government is just a thing that takes money from them and spends it on people who don’t deserve to live because they’re not asshole billionaire techbros.

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      • adarza@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That’s because he and his kind believe government is useless and can just be broken without losing anything important.

        kinda like racks of servers that keep a social media site used by 100s of millions of users? the ones muskrat just yanked willy-nilly out of a data center and loaded onto uhauls? it took weeks for twitter to repair that damage.

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    • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      He’s either

      • an incompetent moron who thinks AI eventually will be like in the movies, you just need to push throught its teething pains,
      • someone that tries to destroy the government and its services through weaponized incompetence, so they can be privatized,
      • both, because I saw way too many things in real life.
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    • Sorse@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      “Just test in prod” - Elongated Muskrat

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    • adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The government IS the test run.

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  • espentan@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    He’s looking more and more like Kim Jong Un by the day…

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    • pyre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      I don’t think even kim jong un looks as stupid as this guy on a regular basis.

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  • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    DOGE Plan to Push AI Across the US Federal Government is Wildly Dangerous.

    Fixed that for you.

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  • hansolo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    I will be the first to lean into the fact that over the next 5 years, workflow in every company will change dramatically. It’s going to be like the shift from no one having email, to everyone doing business by email.

    But you know what’s a bad idea? Rawdogging that change in real time, on spec, with your human workflow staff out in the street, and your staff are politically-appointed children, all while things like critical infrastructure, healthcare, nukes, air traffick, and the military are your “in production” assets that might go down. All to try and be the guy that shoves his AI in the gap.

    All governments moved to email slowly because, among other reasons, email is inherently insecure. Email use by governments, records laws, and encryption standards progressed together. None of those types of knock-ons are considered here.

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  • notannpc@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I bet it conveniently comes with a contract for xai. By a complete coincidence and definitely not more criminal behavior.

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  • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And if the AI fails, buddy billionaires will be there to offer privatized alternative, for a fee of course.

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  • 800XL@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Jesus Christ. Would someone just 80s arcade game kidnap him already and scare him aleady?

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    • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Do like the arcade machines and unplug 'em.

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  • Gonzako@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    My grandpa loved shouting social security codes with their names, can you please do that while celebrating like he used to?

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  • ranslite@zonenranslite.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They want this so they can blame the computer when it makes a bad decision which is actually just parroting what they want

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  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Its also just like. Its not there yet.

    It cant make a full wine glass.

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  • Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Elon is the sort of person to (pay someone) to play universal paperclips and then wonder why they didn’t ask the AI to instead make money.

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  • giacomo@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    its icetown all over again!

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    • glitch1985@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Musk wishes he was half the man Ben Wyatt is!

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    • blitzen@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Does that make Trump literally Chris Traeger?

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  • tal@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The overall goal is to cut the agency’s budget by fifty percent. Shedd suggested using AI to analyze contracts for redundancies, root out fraud, and facilitate a reduction in the federal workforce by automating much of their work.

    I am bullish on AI in the long run.

    I am skeptical that given the state of affairs in 2025, you can reasonably automate half of the federal government, via AI or any other means.

    I also don’t think that the way to do this is to lay off half of the federal workforce and then, after the fact, see what can be automated. If you look at the private sector automating things, it tends to hedge its bets. Take self-service point-of-sale kiosks. We didn’t just see companies simply lay off all cashiers. Instead, we saw them brought in as an option, then had the company look at what worked and what didn’t work – and some of those were really bad – and then increase the rate of deployment.

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    • Telorand@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, but you and much of the business world have intelligence and strategy. Elon is the guy who thinks he can just pay some Chinese gamer to play a game for him, then pretend he did it himself; that’s his version of “brilliant strategist.”

      It’s no wonder he can’t figure out how to automate anything safely or correctly, because he doesn’t actually understand how to do anything himself, and he can’t just pay some Chinese rando to do it for him.

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      • futatorius@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        I worked as a consultant for a long time. I learned that anyone who starts a question with “Why don’t we just…” generally doesn’t understand the problem.

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  • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You generally won’t understand another person (and adversary especially) if you don’t see how their actions perfectly make sense for them, and without conspiracies.

    So - there is one matching variant, that Musk sincerely hates bureaucratic kinds of power, but not proprietary kinds of power. Replacing a bureaucrat with (some imagined good) AI in another assumption would be replacing a mediocre human with inherent lust for power with an unreliable automaton, but without lust for power. The good part here is that humans are unreliable too and working bureaucracies compensate for that.

    The bad part is that for every failure a person should be responsible proportionally to their input. I’m not sure they’ll do that, or I’m sure they won’t.

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    • futatorius@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      That would make sense if corporate bureaucracy was not bureaucracy. But it is.

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      • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        Yes, but corporate bureaucracy is someone’s property, so ultimately there is a responsible person, always.

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