Elon Musk aims to innovate government efficiency using AI, as emphasized by Thomas Shedd's 'AI-first strategy.' While AI has the potential to improve federal services, concerns arise about its use to replace civil servants, risking unilateral executive control over government actions. This raises alarm around democracy's integrity, where future leaders can easily modify policies with AI, potentially leading to overreach similar to past political purges. Such shifts could have significant implications for social programs and law enforcement.
Unlike an army of human bureaucrats, an army of AI agents could, almost on a whim, be redirected to upend social-welfare programs, alter law-enforcement directives, and sidestep Congress.
If human workers are widely replaced with AI, executives will have unilateral authority to instantaneously alter the behavior of the government, profoundly raising the stakes for transitions of power in democracy.
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