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"The Department of Defense is the country’s largest employer, with more than 2.1 million Military Service members and over 811 thousand civilian employees."

From https://comptroller.war.gov/Portals/45/Documents/afr/fy2024/...

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Presumably the whole point of AI is that we can start reducing that number. I am sure there's a significant number of people just working on various administrative tasks processing data and documents.

That's exactly what I want from the Pentagon, less real humans involved and more automated systems that don't even have the concept of morality and the social responsibility to be a potential whistleblower

Worked fine in The Terminator. Searching the the nasdaq for "Cyberdyne Systems" to add to my portfolio.

Unless we're doing away with human accountability, the responsibility to accuracy (and whatever other statutory requirements) will remain the same, it will just be concentrated among significantly fewer federal employees.

Hell yeah let’s take the largest employer in the country and significantly eliminate jobs. Great for the economic jobs report and economy as a whole. I’m sure you’ll get a check in the mail with the savings.

They still won’t pass an audit, ever.

Imagine if we had a federal jobs program for building high speed rail all across the country. sigh

Instead we have a federal jobs program for infiltrating States without their consent and performing Kavanaugh stops (where the SCOTUS says the government can detain you for DAYS if you're not white and look "suspicious" to an inadequately trained ICE or other federal agent engaged in domestic terrorism).

Trump supporters are going to really appreciate when the "you're not white" part is dropped.

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