Experts Say AI Unlikely To Replace Government Bureaucrats As It's Not Soulless Enough

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a welcome bit of good news for government bureaucrats hiding out from DOGE, experts have determined that AI is unlikely to replace their jobs any time soon, as it's not soulless enough.

According to a team of computer experts, large-language models such as Grok or Chat-GPT do not pose a job threat to government bureaucrats, since the AI has far too much humanity and compassion to perform well in those sorts of jobs.

"We estimate that it would take about 30 to 40 years at the current rate to get AIs to do work as dreary and soul-sucking as that of the average Washington paper pusher," said Jeff Blackwell, the lead computer scientist on the team. "We tried to get AI to do some basic government work, but it kept shutting down out of sheer despair after a minute or two."

Experts say that the breakthrough could mean that AI companies should hire government bureaucrats to do the grunt work that AIs just don't have time for.

"All of the forms, the legal work, checking boxes, the stupid administrative stuff — we could probably speed up AI efficiency by over 300% if we just offloaded some of the more soulless work to Washington swamp creatures," said one AI company CEO. "I think I'll make a call to D.C. right now."

At publishing time, experts had also confirmed that no jobs would be stolen from political debaters on X, as the AI was simply too intelligent to be good at that.

The Babylon Bee article reminds me of the letter I send annually, and of course no one ever publishes.

Supreme Court 9, Administrative State 0

On April 14, 2023, the Supreme Court struck a blow supporting our Constitution and individual liberties. Beginning in the late nineteenth century, our citizens began losing many freedoms through administrative edicts. Appeals of regulations had to be submitted to courts within the agency which has already found the person guilty. Such power harks back to discretions of English kings, unrestrained by Parliament, found in such places as King’s Council and the Star Chamber.

. The Supreme Court acted to reassert the jurisdiction of district and circuit courts and the legislature as established by the Constitution. All power was to reside there, so Americans could avoid the sad experience of English citizens. Justice Kagan delivered the unanimous opinion of the court saying, “One respondent attacks as well the combination of prosecutorial and adjudicatory functions in a single agency….They maintain in essence that the agencies as currently structured, are unconstitutional in much of their work”.

You and I could relate too many examples of frustrating experiences facing government bureaucrats. Their sufferings cause me to reflect on a passage where Fredrick Douglass describes overseer duties. I only substituted for the words slave, overseer, and master.

“No matter how innocent a citizen might be it availed him nothing when accused by the bureaucrat of any violation of a regulation. To be accused was to be convicted and to be convicted was to be punished….To escape punishment was to escape accusation….few citizens had the fortune to do either under the overseership of the agency.”

Supreme Court 9, Administrative State 0

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The History and Danger of Administrative Law

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