DOGE’s Plans to Replace Humans With AI Are Already Under Way

>A new phase of the president and the Department of Government Efficiency’s attempts to downsize and remake the civil service is under way. The idea is simple: use generative AI to automate work that was previously done by people.

>The Trump administration is testing a new chatbot with 1,500 federal employees at the General Services Administration and may release it to the entire agency as soon as this Friday—meaning it could be used by more than 10,000 workers who are responsible for more than $100 billion in contracts and services.

>This article is based in part on conversations with several current and former GSA employees with knowledge of the technology, all of whom requested anonymity to speak about confidential information; it is also based on internal GSA documents that I reviewed, as well as the software’s code base, which is visible on GitHub.

>The bot, which GSA leadership is framing as a productivity booster for federal workers, is part of a broader playbook from DOGE and its allies. Speaking about GSA’s broader plans, Thomas Shedd, a former Tesla engineer who was recently installed as the director of the Technology Transformation Services (TTS), GSA’s IT division, said at an all-hands meeting last month that the agency is pushing for an “AI-first strategy.”

>In the meeting, a recording of which I obtained, Shedd said that “as we decrease [the] overall size of the federal government, as you all know, there’s still a ton of programs that need to exist, which is a huge opportunity for technology and automation to come in full force.”

>He suggested that “coding agents” could be provided across the government—a reference to AI programs that can write and possibly deploy code in place of a human. Moreover, Shedd said, AI could “run analysis on contracts,” and software could be used to “automate” GSA’s “finance functions.”

I bet all the boomers who hate Ai and voted for Trump just love hearing about this.

I’m assuming they probably won’t care because of the magic R.

Let’s start with the muppets in charge. Lead by example!

Maybe AI will tell us that Musk and Orange Man need to be deplatformed and imprisoned?

This is actually meant, not just to do that, but to THOUGHT POLICE people to follow the party line or they’ll get fired. So, mention a “woke word” and you get you manager notified and you are terminated. Possibly instantly terminated. It’s about policing as much as job replacement.

Especially considering we’ve already had phone mazes and chatbots in other things which we all know are hyper inefficient and get little done.

This is going to be absolutely catastrophic, especially if they aren’t doing pilot programmes first (article doesn’t say anything about that sort of thing, worryingly).

I’m self employed in ecommerce for 10 years and use chatgpt daily as an invaluable crutch.

I’ve still yet to see or understand how “AI” can efficiently replace human capacity as quick or accurately as everyone casually acts like humans are so replacable.

It seems like a generic “AI” is used to describe potentially feasible human replacement, but it would require hyper-tailored programming like any other .gov tech evolution????

ThIs is hilarious. AI is fed based on example text. It injests huge volumes of content to create its predictive modeling. It doesn’t “know” how to analyze – it has just read thousands of analysis and is parroting modes it has seen.

Claiming that AI has been used to identify progrs at DoE that should be cut means one of two things. Either they gave it specific text to look for “make a list of programs that mention equality, equity, access, empowerment, etc”. Or they asked it a vague broad question and it used the existing biases from it’s dataset to recommend cuts. So if the dataset is more wall street journal and Mencius Moldbug, it’s going to to just make recommendations based on that. Not on some magic AI algorithm it created sui generis that identifies waste.

AI is not ready for prime time. 

Anyone who uses it regularly knows this.  

It is amazing until 

it says something 100% wrong with 100% confidence. 

Long pltr. Sorry, and I’ll probably get downvoted for this, but government beaurocratic gridlock needs an overhaul.

When government-ready blockchain technology is implemented for contracts and documentation, along with Palantir’s software infrastructure, it will be a huge upgrade if we ever get the luxury of a sane and responsible administration again.

PS I’m shorting the shit out of TSLA because Muskrat deserves everything he gets.

Have they used LLM’s? They make things up in almost one hundred percent of responses.

This is literally Skynet. I hope Arnold can save us.

How about you guys create actual AI first instead of this glorified algorithm, they’re way too enthusiastic about this when it’s not anywhere close to as effective as their delusions tell them. It’s like they just can’t fucking wait to stop paying people for work.

This won’t work; just look at the CEO of Klarna – he mentioned that they fired people because AI could do the job – 8 months later, he’s backing off with the quote: “We discovered that we made a mistake as we do need the people to do the work”.

Awesome, automate as many jobs as quickly as possible. We’re here in this life to be productive, not endlessly play secretary simulation, it’s time.

AI can be an incredible tool to boost productivity, especially an environment where the service is the focus. These knuckleheads are taking a commercial approach to cutting the bottom line regardless if service suffers and are ruining the value AI could bring. In the GSA world using AI to make complicated documents like the FAR more accessible and digestible rather than needing to send everything off for a legal opinion, and it could speed up government acquisitions and provide overall better taxpayer services. But they see it more as an opportunity to cut from 10,000 people to 2,500.

GSA already does a fair amount of automation in their financial world. They automate what they can and leave human steps in places where accuracy is more important than speed. I can see AI helping but not removing humans from that process.

The government is already understaffed for the programs that are expected to be managed and the scale of the programs. AI could help boost productivity so that the current workforce is the right size. That would be efficiency. Instead what we are going to get is a perpetuation of the existing problems, and a less capable workforce.

I love Musks AI.. If you ask it, it literally debunks most of what Trump and Musk say. Lol.

Isn’t this what all the “accelerate by any means necessary no matter the destruction” bros who inhabit pages like this wanted, humans being replaced and mad obsolete by robots even at their own expense?