Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency are attempting to enact what some experts have called the “largest job cut in American history“—but don’t worry, these geniuses have a solution to pick up the significant amount of slack caused by letting go of tens of thousands of domain experts and civil servants all at once: a chatbot.
According to Wired, DOGE has given about 1,500 employees at the US General Services Administration, the agency that manages federal real estate and oversees most government contracts, access to a proprietary chatbot called GSAi.
Most of the useless AI makes me giggle, because the idiots doing it will soon be fired. It will be briefly incredibly embarrassing for them before they fail upwards into a new role teaching people how to hire people to replace AI that didn’t work.
But this just makes me angry. Lots of people actually need government services and don’t have an alternative.