Startup Founder Aims to Automate Federal Jobs with AI, Raising Concerns

May 04, 2025
Ars Technica
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Summary

A controversial startup aims to automate 70,000 federal jobs using AI agents, sparking concerns over the feasibility and reliability of deploying AI at such a massive scale across diverse agencies with varying rules and regulations.

Key Points

  • A startup founder is hiring technologists to deploy AI agents to automate tasks currently done by tens of thousands of federal employees
  • The project aims to use AI to replace around 70,000 federal workers and free them up for 'higher-impact work'
  • Experts say deploying AI agents at such a large scale across different agencies with varying rules would be very difficult and unreliable

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