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Thor Benson

Elon Musk wants to use AI to run US gov’t, but experts say ‘very bad’ idea

Elon Musk has fired thousands of United States government employees, and plans to rely on artificial intelligence (AI) to do those jobs [File: Jose Luis Magana/AP Photo]

Is Elon Musk planning to use artificial intelligence to run the US government? That seems to be his plan, but experts say it is a “very bad idea”.

Musk has fired tens of thousands of federal government employees through his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and he reportedly requires the remaining workers to send the department a weekly email featuring five bullet points describing what they accomplished that week.

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