DOGE is Using AI the Wrong Way.
By Vasant Dhar
President Trump and Elon Musk’s DOGE initiative is misapplying artificial intelligence and missing its full potential.
The first round of mass layoffs of government employees has resulted in a public backlash. In response, the president said the next phase of the DOGE initiative will be more precise: “I don’t want to see a big cut where a lot of good people are cut.”
So what would a better approach to leveraging AI in a government landscape — the scalpel instead of the chainsaw — look like? Let’s start by examining the current use of AI and why it is missing the mark.
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Vasant Dhar is Professor at the NYU Stern School of Business and the Center for Data Science, and host of the podcast Brave New World at BraveNewPodcast.com that focuses on the world that our future selves will inhabit.