AI to Evaluate Federal Workers' Emails, Sparking Controversy
Summary
Amid controversy, the US government plans to use an AI language model to analyze federal workers' weekly emails detailing their accomplishments, potentially determining if their jobs are essential, sparking backlash from unions and employees but earning praise from President Trump.
Key Points
- The responses from federal workers about their weekly accomplishments will be analyzed by an AI system to determine if their jobs are necessary.
- The AI system being used is a Large Language Model that can process and understand human language from large amounts of text data.
- The directive to justify work via email has faced pushback from unions, workers, and some agencies, but was praised by President Trump.