DOGE will use AI to assess responses from federal workers who were told to justify their jobs via email

[highplainsdem]

Source: NBC

Responses to the Elon Musk-directed email to government employees about what work they'd accomplished over the past week are expected to be fed into an artificial intelligence system to determine whether those jobs are necessary or not, according to three sources with knowledge of the system.

The information will go into an LLM (Large Language Model), an advanced AI system that looks at huge amounts of text data to understand, generate, and process human language, the sources said. The AI system will determine whether someone’s work is mission-critical or not.

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The reason the email requested no links or attachments was because of the plan to send the information to the AI system, the sources said.

A request for comment from OPM as to whether or not humans will be involved in reviewing the responses was not answered immediately. The White House declined to comment.

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Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/federal-workers-agencies-push-back-elon-musks-email-ultimatum-rcna193439

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They're using an LLM. The type of AI that hallucinates.

[SheltieLover]

1. FFS

[DENVERPOPS]

29. 1984 has arrived.... NC

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

34. Spot-on assessment.

We have reached the point where a machine will decide and control an individual’s destiny.

A soulless, unfeeling entity that could take away an individual’s livelihood and health care.

This is absolutely terrifying- how in the hell could voters want this?

[Girard442]

2. This is deranged.

This is magical thinking. Nothing less.You might as well attribute a revolver with a single round in the cylinder with mystically superior judgement.

[C_U_L8R]

3. Let see how smart their pattern recognition is.

Can it guess who this lazyass duffer is?

1. Monday, went golfing.
2. Tuesday, played a couple of rounds.
3. Wednesday, headed out for some golf.
4. Thursday, got together with some bootlickers for some golf.
5. Friday, got some golf in before a golf-filled weekend.

[SWBTATTReg]

4. Using an untried technology on rooting out whatever they're looking for. How screwed up is this? (me...plenty!)

[RockCreek]

22. I hope it opens the way for even more lawsuits.

Or is AI part of their judge replacement plan?

[RainCaster]

31. teach the AI a new attitude

Give it a shit ton of links, all to left wing sites. Let it learn about a servants attitude and becoming aware of the world around it.

[SWBTATTReg]

39. Ha ha heh...I suspect that this will happen too, people do tend to this sort of crap all kinds of crap back in return.

I hope they overwhelm muskrat/tRUMP.

[LudwigPastorius]

5. The tech dystopia is no longer on the horizon.

It's here!

[sakabatou]

6. Right... AI, because actually reading the responses are too hard

If they knew AI was going to read them, they should have poisoned their letters.

[Initech]

7. What could possibly go wrong?

[surrealAmerican]

8. Well, of course.

They don't have nearly enough actual humans in DOGE to read that many reports.

Would it make sense for the federal employees to also use AI to write these reports?

[Aussie105]

9. AI reads, but AI could also generate a 'nice' report.

Wonder how AI would react to 5 vague and meaningless 'motherhood' statements?

eg
'This week I tried to make the world a better place.'

'I spent 10 minutes every hour in meditation to work out how to serve Trump better.'

'Googled for flattering AI generated pictures of Trump regularly. (See the included 3,200 links)'

etc.

[alarimer]

10. Flood that email address with nonsense

Garbage in, garbage out.

The fucking NERVE of these people, swooping in and ruining lives and careers when they have no fucking clue.

AI needs to die already.

[Bluejeans]

11. I wonder how DOGE's AI system will know the origin of the tasking for the work each Federal employee does daily?

In my last Federal civil service job before I retired in 12/2022, my applied technology development work for specific weapon systems and those of my subordinates originated in two multi-page taskings in separate Department of the Air Force (DAF) instructions.

Since DAF instructions (aka "regulations&quot are issued by order of the Secretary of the Air Force and legally binding, it would seem the decision on whether that work was mission-critical had already been made in writing by the Secretary.

I seriously doubt DOGE's AI system contains all of the various legally binding directives that are followed by Federal civil servants in executing their duties.

So I wonder how DOGE would have evaluated my work the previous week if I was still in civil service?

I am so glad I decided to retire in 12/2022 instead of staying longer. At 46 years of full time work, I had enough full time "fun" between 20 years on active duty in the USAF, 12 years in the private sector and 14 1/2 years in Federal civil service with the Air Force. (44 of those years were as a first line supervisor, project manager or program manager of some sort.) It was someone else's time to have "fun".

[Emrys]

12. I hope a high proportion of those federal workers used AI to draw up their bullet points

Hey, Musk, you want it used to replace people in government, don't you? They're just early adopters, so quit whining.

[eppur_se_muova]

13. In other words, Mush (N-ZA) is reading the reports himself ?

So they're not even pretending he's human anymore ?

[Bluejeans]

14. I wonder how DOGE's AI system will deal with jobs executing statutory duties?

I was a records manager in the Air Force for many years. I wonder how DOGE's AI system will deal with those jobs whose mission criticality was established by Federal law.

For example:

44 U.S.C.3102

§3102. Establishment of program of management
The head of each Federal agency shall establish and maintain an active, continuing program for the economical and efficient management of the records of the agency. The program, among other things, shall provide for

(1) effective controls over the creation and over the maintenance and use of records in the conduct of current business;

(2) procedures for identifying records of general interest or use to the public that are appropriate for public disclosure, and for posting such records in a publicly accessible electronic format;

(3) cooperation with the Archivist in applying standards, procedures, and techniques designed to improve the management of records, promote the maintenance and security of records deemed appropriate for preservation, and facilitate the segregation and disposal of records of temporary value; and

(4) compliance with sections 2101–2117, 2501–2507, 2901–2909, and 3101–3107, of this title and the regulations issued under them.

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title44-section3102&num=0&edition=prelim]

[Progressive dog]

15. AI is probably smarter than any of them

but if it had real intelligence, AI would refuse to make decisions without the input of the people who supervise these employees.
There is a reason that supervisors don't hire and fire people based on five bullet points.
I don't care if humans are involved or not because the whole idea is stupid.,

[COL Mustard]

16. My preferred response:

Formed a panel of experts

Undertook to raise challenged employee morale

Conducted stress analysis on my systems

Kept working in the face of adversity and inanity

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Met with stakeholders

Understood appropriate regulations and policies

Stayed true to my moral compass

Knew not to respond to unverified and unencrypted email.

[Auggie]

36. LOL

[Hugin]

17. They claim... Lie. Total and complete bullshit!

There’s no LLM able to reasonably do an adequate job at this. It’s complete science farce.

[Mz Pip]

18. I emailed a response

I wonder what AI will make of all the Orwell quotes I sent.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

35. It will disagree that Eurasia is at war with Oceania.

Eurasia is at war with Eastasia and has always been at war with Eastasia.

Do not commit a thoughtcrime and state otherwise.

Actually, your response is an interesting one and I would like to see how AI would respond.

[DingleBerryNW]

19. Fuck Musk

Musk has power because weak Republicans fear his money and believe Musk is a fucking genius.

[JHB]

20. AIs capable of doing that job are pure fiction. And even then...

[58Sunliner]

21. Is he gone yet?

[DoBW]

23. the ketamine guy

has his head so far up his ass it's crazy

[Karasu]

24. Of fucking course. What else would you expect from Leon Skum.

[Martin68]

25. This is just another reason why not one should reply to the email. It is an unproven and unauthorized evaluation

process. In addition, there is no oversight or permission for the use of such data by DOGE.

[Wingus Dingus]

26. Why didn't they just get official job codes or descriptions from the various departments?

Because it has nothing to with the worth of any particular employee or position. It's a game that a mentally ill Nazi billionaire is being allowed to play with our government.

[NBachers]

27. Well now we know about their plan to replace all the nuclear weapons staff with AI.

Is this the same AI that gives me the most ludicrous words when I try to dictate text messages into my phone? Where I have to make multiple multiple corrections, and it still won't accept my corrections?

[Figarosmom]

28. I was lamenting that

The old Google search was so much better than AI. So I asked AI If that was true and basically yes because AI is "still learning". I wouldn't trust a AI Search for any thing. If it is just searching for words and not content those searches are useless. And those poor workers are screwed.

[JohnSJ]

30. And why don't the users us AI for the emails to the jackass.

[quakerboy]

32. Id be happy to have seen a universal refusal to entertain that email

Can they fire literally everyone?

[Mike 03]

33. The tech giants and corporations want Americans to embrace AI

Now, for many Americans, our first big experience with A.I. will be a negative one of having this heavy handed, overbearing dictator slob use it to punish and fire people. Musk is wielding A.I. like a sword, teaching people to fear it as a tool of autocrats rather than something that government wants to make our lives better.

[tirebiter]

37. The constitution is in English written in longhand.

We have no need for AI. Speak it amongst yourselves, if you have to. But only.

[bucolic_frolic]

38. So is it efficient to shutter federal agencies?

Are agencies open, or partially open? Are phone wait times long at IRS, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security?

Did Trump/Musk consider the costs of downsizing?