How Elon Musk will use AI to “degrease the American mammoth”

Fear in the city. Washington DC, the federal capital, which voted 92.5% for Kamala Harris, fears the radical intentions of the Trump administration 2. Washington Postblinded by his fiercely partisan commitment which made him miss the unpopularity of the Biden-Harris administration, headline on “massive staff reductions in government” desired by the Elon Musk – Vivek Ramaswamy tandem. The two billionaire entrepreneurs were commissioned by Donald Trump to apply to the federal state and its employees management rules that apply in the private sector, in order to “ make government more efficient and less expensive ».

Reducing the number of civil servants is only an indirect objective of their approach. The main purpose of the new “Department of Government Efficiency» (DOGE, an acronym identical to the name of a cryptoasset promoted by Musk) is not even to make savings in the federal budget, although this goal is important given the enormity of the budget deficit ( more than 6% of GDP, or some $1,900 billion). Salaries and…