The United States Tech Force, announced Monday, is meant to source the artificial intelligence talent the government needs to win the global AI race and modernize the government, the administration says. The goal is to recruit an initial cohort of around 1,000 technologists who will be placed in agencies for two-year stints, potentially as soon as March. "We need you," said Scott Kupor, the director of the Office of Personnel Management.
"I've talked to plenty of people who got these offers at Anthropic and who just turned them down. Who wouldn't even talk to Mark Zuckerberg."
According to the World Economic Forum, more than 90% of employers use automated systems to filter or rank job applications, and 88% of companies already employ some form of AI for initial candidate screening.
OpenAI's CEO, Sam Altman, humorously referred to the recruitment gatherings in San Francisco and New York City as a 'party' while seeking finance professionals to develop artificial general intelligence.
Altman mentioned that while Meta recruited some "great people," they failed to secure OpenAI's "top people" and had to go "quite far down their list" for hires.