The Trump administration frames generative AI as a remedy to "government waste." However, what it seeks to automate is not paperwork but democratic decision-making. techpolicy.press/anatomy-of-a... - ThreadSky

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joelsef.bsky.social • 4 days ago

The Trump administration frames generative AI as a remedy to "government waste." However, what it seeks to automate is not paperwork but democratic decision-making.

https://techpolicy.press/anatomy-of-an-ai-coup

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joelsef.bsky.social•4 days ago

Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are banking on a popular but false delusion that word prediction technologies make meaningful inferences about the world.

joelsef.bsky.social•4 days ago

They are using it to sidestep Congressional oversight of the budget, which is, Constitutionally, the allotment of resources to government programs through representative politics.

joelsef.bsky.social•4 days ago

After months of ridiculing the civil service for ineptitude and shouting about the woke politics of academic research institutions, a new delusion about word prediction will likely emerge from any such announcement.

joelsef.bsky.social•4 days ago

In that story, the beneficiaries of the AI coup will announce the perfect solution to government failures and their reviled commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion in science. The solution will be a "centralized data repository" hooked to a chatbot and a suite of promises.

joelsef.bsky.social•4 days ago

Eventually, the shoddy infrastructure of these automated government agencies and services will produce language or code that creates an AI-driven national crisis.

joelsef.bsky.social•4 days ago

Because no AI system is presently suited to the complex task of governance, failure is inevitable. Deploying that system anyway is a human decision, and humans should be held accountable.

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