Inc: “Business owners and employees who worry that artificial intelligence (AI) will help improve their work while possibly taking countless jobs away from humans have more reason to suspect both could be true. Another example of AI’s inroads in the workplace arose after Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) eliminated 1,000 jobs at one federal agency, and then presented surviving employees with a new chatbot to deal with the work their departed colleagues had done.”
“About 1,500 employees with the government’s General Services Administration (GSA) — which manages federal property and most procurement contracts — were given the app to assist with various repetitive chores after a series of deep layoffs. As reported by Wired, agency staff were told they could use the combination of three chatbots to “draft emails, create talking points, summarize text, (and) write code.” Providing AI assistance with that limited yet varied list of tasks is apparently DOGE’s next measure after eliminating over 1,000 GSA jobs last month, with hundreds of cuts more still on the way.”