This is an important article about DOGE from @wired.com , but I hope there's a part 2 that focuses on a few important questions:
First, which AI tools are they using, and what's the process for determining that? Quite obviously, this will be a corrupt process designed to pay-off Trump's oligarchs.
First, which AI tools are they using, and what's the process for determining that? Quite obviously, this will be a corrupt process designed to pay-off Trump's oligarchs.
Reposted from
WIRED
Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data. The next step: Unleash the AI.
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The main thing to remember about artificial intelligence [AI] is that it is software created by humans. Like any software, AI can be tweaked in order to produce desired outputs.
The utility of AI depends on the people who use it and how they use it. (kind of like guns).
My question:
Is there going to be any way to determine if the money saved by firing all those people will simply be re-routed to pay a private company for use of their AI product?
I fear we will find that Doge just ran everything through Grok under T&C that allowed them to add our info to their 'training data'.
But under federal procurement rules, this work should all be put out to public bid. Is that happening?
Second, there are even more important questions about what they are going to do with all this data and AI tools, beyond using it as an excuse to fire workers and to falsely claim they've uncovered fraud.
Finally, there's all the questions about what security, privacy, and outcome protections they are putting in place. Private companies wrestle with this questions before employing AI tools. Do you think they are doing this? Certainly not.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/20/musk-data-ai-00205259#:~:text=The%20notion%20that%20Musk%20would,definitive%20answer%20on%20this%20front.
Direct financial/ownership interests in the very AI companies developing these tools.
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