After mass firings at the General Services Administration, DOGE issued remaining staff an app to take up the excess work — but severely limited its use to a handful of repetitive tasks. Elon Musk. Illustration: Inc; Photo: Getty Images 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, 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 […]
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