Posted on 02/08/2025 7:51:45 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
While public discourse is consumed by a deluge of executive orders and scandalous exposés of waste and corruption, the Trump administration, with Elon Musk’s United States DOGE Service (USDS) at the helm, is quietly executing a radical AI-driven overhaul of federal operations.
The recently established USDS, whose goal is to “[modernize] Federal technology and software to maximize governmental efficiency and productivity,” has instead handed Musk and his allies unprecedented control over federal technology strategy — with little scrutiny and even less accountability.
What was pitched as a reasonable efficiency initiative is rapidly escalating into a full-scale AI revolution, one that raises serious concerns about oversight, transparency, and the unchecked power of unelected technocrats. While the public fixates on taxpayer waste, the real transformation is happening behind the scenes: Washington isn’t just being “streamlined” — it’s being reprogrammed.
To overhaul fundamental government operations, DOGE — the Department of Government Efficiency — revamped Technology Transformation Services (TTS), an obscure department within the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), once responsible for modernizing federal IT infrastructure. Now, TTS — along with the GSA — has become the first testing lab for Musk’s “AI-first” government experiment.
Leading the effort is Thomas Shedd, a former Tesla engineer turned government disruptor. Under his leadership, TTS is rewiring the system to run on AI. Put simply, TTS builds the tech and DOGE sets the rules. Together, they’re transforming federal agencies into automated bureaucracies where algorithms call the shots.
During last Monday’s meeting, Shedd laid out his vision for the agency’s transformation, according to Wired. He outlined plans for TTS to operate like a “startup software company,” centralizing vast amounts of federal data and “automating different internal...
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Veronika is just upset that Trump / Elon might cut off the flow of ‘New American’ dough to her homeland, Ukraine.
You are on a roll!
Outstanding!
the authoress sounds terrified of AI algorithms.
frankly, i’d rather have a ‘procurement’ AI (glorified search engine+network) replace a corrupible human bureaucrat, any day of the week. at least with an AI, you can stop it by just pulling the plug.
This article lies. Obama founded the USDS and Trump merely renamed it.
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2025/02/07/the-dirty-secret-of-doge-dems-built-it-n3799582
Yea, seems to be USDS created in 2014.
It became a lefty deal pretty quick.
Fixed by PDJT 2025.
Interesting.
Wonder if she has a Zeeper account on here...
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