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DOGE Plan to Push AI Across the US Federal Government is Wildly Dangerous
There are already many instances of AI-driven governance gone wrong, writes Ben Green. DOGE may offer a new case study.
Led by Thomas Shedd, a former Tesla engineer now in charge of the General Services Administration’s technology team, the plan is to deploy AI widely across the federal government. The computer scientists completed the task quickly, with one even noting, “this seems very simple.” However, when we analyzed the software tools they built, we found that errors and legal misconceptions were rampant. In fact, several years ago, the Social Security Administration considered updating its systems for annotating deaths but decided that the cost of the upgrade would not be worth the benefits.
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