The rewiring of Social security admin with AI has begun, the training video is not promising
The rewiring of Social security admin with AI has begun, the training video is not promising
Other countries have already automated their social welfare systems—with mixed results.
In recent months, Elon Musk’s DOGE has attempted to hollow out America’s federal bureaucracy. After firing droves of workers and attempting to downsize prominent agencies, the billionaire-backed effort is attempting to create a new governance model that prioritizes automation.
On Friday, Wired reported that, in a flailing attempt to modernize the agency, a new ChatGPT-style bot was integrated into agency staffers’ workflows.
The Agency Support Companion is supposed to “assist employees with everyday tasks and enhance productivity,” an internal email viewed by the magazine reads. However, the chatbot does not seem to work very well. “Honestly, no one has really been talking about it at all,” a source who works at the agency told Wired.
to assist employees with everyday tasks and enhance productivity,”
My boss did the same to us. I'm a developer.
That was also exactly his wording.
Fuck?
They read the same business magazines and are probably quoting the same paid article promoting a "solution". And there's a high likeyhood they don't know they're quoting an ad.
That's what makes me kinda sad about all this
He never gave a shit about our work or how we develop. Friday he looked at me, all worrisome, and said "we have to seriously use gitHub for everything, why don't we use it?"
I tried to convince him several times to use gitHub for all projects. He doesn't even remember it, never even really listened and now we get the "how could you guys work without version control, you messed up" look ..
At the same time, "work from home" became a slur. He looks at me like I'm asking for money, while taking a vacation in Honolulu. Like the pandemic never happened and we had all the same output working from home, than we had in the office before. We were productive and had a much better life, not being confined most of the day in an office.
Look i get wanting to modernize. Some government agencies desperately need too.
And maybe this is my old person yells at technology moment but ai is a menace. It makes work more complicated and makes too many mistakes to be reliable. Supposedly the reason so many ppl have been getting letters for deportation that are citizens is because of ai.
You’re not wrong. We’re definitely not there for this generation. Maybe the next. My parents will be retiring in the next few years, and they don’t know anything about social media and websites - they would rather go to an office or pick up a phone.
I'm also an old person who yells, and I agree.
Mostly, though, if we're going to 'modernize' the system (with or without AI), it needs to be done smartly and methodically, and by people who aren't philosophically opposed to Social Security's existence.
I would not trust these idiots with working on a vending machine let alone a social program of this importance.
Shouldn't trust these fucks with finger paints
At work I was recently told to watch a "training video" about AI that was made entirely with AI. Nobody seemed to get the irony of a video, made for humans, more or less made by an AI, on why you should use a different AI (we don't have access to the video making tools). We're basically gaslighting ourselves.
Except anyone watching that video would likely be convinced of the opposite.
I’m fine with all of the 65+ getting jobs.