Nothing to see here, just Musk's team of "experts" feeding the nation's data into AI. What could go wrong? Especially if the goal is to replace a ton of government workers with AI?

"To replace the existing civil service, Musk’s allies are looking to technology. DOGE associates have been feeding vast troves of government records and databases into artificial intelligence tools, looking for unwanted federal programs and trying to determine which human work can be replaced by AI, machine-learning tools or even robots."

"As much as half the government’s nonmilitary real estate holdings are set to be liquidated, a move aimed at closing offices and increasing commute times amid sharp new limits on remote and telework. That is intended to depress workforce morale and increase attrition, according to four officials with knowledge of internal conversations at the General Services Administration, another agency taken over by Musk."

“We’ve heard from them that they want to make the buildings so crappy that people will leave,” said one senior official at GSA, which manages most federal property. “I think that’s the larger goal here, which is bring everybody back, the buildings are going to suck, their commutes are going to suck.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/08/doge-musk-goals/

In chaotic Washington blitz, Elon Musk’s ultimate goal becomes clear

Shrink government, control data and — according to one official closely watching the billionaire’s DOGE — replace “the human workforce with machines.”

The Washington Post

@briankrebs Weird he's not applying efficiency to the largest watermelon, and R boondoggles, such as the Military budget.

Everybody knows efficiency cuts works best on the biggest consumer.

When price is no limit, do you upgrade your HVAC or do you go after each light bulb, in a home?

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maybe a sham DoD audit to happen: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/07/trump-musk-pentagon-education-014337

@ShrikeTron @briankrebs And we know he will never go after the military budget. In fact I would guess that Musk/Trump will propose something like doubling the military budget in addition to cutting income taxes on the top 1%. And the trained seals that are MAGA voters will gladly cheerlead for him.

@Pepperbike This is the "we can all see the military budget is a golden calf".

It's just still amazing it's so normalised to walk around the elephant in the room.

@ShrikeTron They'll "discover" that DoD is not spending enough money and use that to increase the budget. I know that is tinfoil hat conspiracy theory, but I don't trust anything from this administration.

@Pepperbike I'm in agreement something shady will be in there that'll only help their agenda.

Or it'll rebound to cut NASA even more.

@ShrikeTron or cut more from NSF and NIH.