Kyle Chayka on Elon Musk’s aim to dismantle the U.S. government and install his own technological vision of the future, aided by artificial intelligence.
To run his agency, Musk brought on a group of tech-company managers and inexperienced twentysomethings whose credentials included internships at SpaceX. We watched as this crew began interrogating federal employees about their jobs, interfering with the system that controls payments at the Treasury Department, and trawling government budgets while Musk used X, the social platform he owns, to call out the agencies and programs in his crosshairs.
is reportedly using A.I. software to identify potential budget reductions at the Department of Education. Anecdotes are circulating about A.I. filters that scan Department of Treasury grant proposals for forbidden terms—including “climate change” and “gender identity”—and then block the proposals. “Everything that can be machine-automated will be,” one government official told the Washington Post. “And the technocrats will replace the bureaucrats.
, Musk is not only sidelining Congress and threatening to defy the courts, helping to bring the country to the point of constitutional crisis; he is also smuggling into our federal bureaucracy the seeds of a new authoritarian regime—techno-fascism by chatbot. Some policy-related decisions in our daily lives are already made with the help of artificial intelligence. A 2020 government-commissioned report identified the use of A.I. tools in departments including the S.E.C.
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