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The AI jobs crisis is here, now
It's not coming, it has already arrived.
Elon Musk and the Trump administration’s project to hollow out the federal workforce is fueled by “AI-first strategies” and obtuse descriptions of algorithms and efficiency; it’s presented as a cost-cutting initiative aimed at generating efficiencies—yet it’s destroying livelihoods en masse and eroding institutional knowledge. It’s DOGE boosting its chatbots, cost-cutting algorithms and hastily installed AI systems designed to replace personnel and the administering of regulations, while eliminating tens of thousands of federal workers, technologists, scientists, and civil servants. That’s it for now — as noted above, I’m currently in Washington DC for a great event put on by the American Association of University Professors, the MIC Center, and the Rutgers' Power and Inequality Working Group, aimed at fighting DOGE and the expansion of AI in academia.
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