Schneier on the Musk AI Government

databasecowgirl writes: Schneier and Sanders have an interesting essay in the Atlantic,Itâ(TM)s Time to Worry About DOGEâ(TM)s AI Plans Schneier, who has written extensively about the beneficial uses of AI in government covers some important concerns regarding Musk's plans.

Central to these are the ability to enable Blackbox Policy changes at the click of a button instead of having to create and pass changes legislatively through a potentially opposing Senate and House. Maybe not a concern for those who voted him in, but will it be a good idea to have implemented this system should a subsequent administration, holding opposing views, has access to the centralised power Musk envisions?

Not buying it

[Iamthecheese]

Right now we're working under unelected officials in the bureaucracy. The threatened more rapid change of those rules than was previously possible doesn't change their nature an in fact puts those rules closer to the ballot box. "this could go badly at the hands of an authoritarian leader" would scare me a lot more if that leader, like the current system of bureaucrats, weren't accountable to the people.

The waste and fraud being found is massive

[schwit1]

They've barely scratched the surface and haven't even started on the DOD.

The federal bureaucracy is a necessary evil and not a jobs program. It's also not supposed to be a check on the Executive.

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[sinij]

Not just massive fraud, these people financed politically motivated activities in support of Dem's priorities. Which is much worse. At this point "by any means necessary" is warranted, once all the wrongdoing is exposed and the responsible people go to jail, only then we can return to normal.