Elon Musk Ally tells the employees that ‘Ai-First’ is the future of the most important government agency

In a meeting on Monday morning, Thomas Shedd, the recent meeting Director of Technology Transformation Services And Elon Muschus Ally, told Generate Service Management Employees Quellen WIRED tells that the agency’s new administrator is pursuing an “AI First strategy”.

During the entire meeting, Shedd announced its vision for a GSA that works like a “startup software company” and automated various internal tasks and centralized data from the entire federal government.

The Monday meeting, which takes place personally and on Google Meet, takes place days after WIRED has reported that many of Musk’s employees hiked to jobs At the highest level of the GSA and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). Before entering TTS, which is located in the GSA, Shedd was a software engineer at Tesla, one of Musk’s companies. The transition among GSA employees forced to confuse their code-to confusion of their code.often to young engineers who did not identify– And wondered what the future of the agency’s tech tasks will look like.

Shedd tried to answer these questions on Monday and stated details about a series of projects that the agency will follow in the coming weeks and months. According to sources, his focus was an increasing role for AI, not only at GSA, but also with the state authorities.

Sources described in an “AI-First strategy”, say that Shedd is applying for a handful of examples of projects for GSA-aging administrator Stephen Ehikian, including the development of “AI coding agents” that would be made available for everyone agencies . Shedd made it clear that he believes that a large part of the work on TTS and the broader government, especially with regard to financial tasks, could be automated.

“This increases red flags,” said a cybersecurity expert, who was granted anonymity based on retaliation. He said Kabel on Monday, who found that automation of the government is not the same as the automation of other things as self -driving cars. Especially people who are not experts in the specialist domain often think of projects that this is “stupid” and then find out how difficult the thing really is. “

Shedd instructed the employees to consider TTS as a software startup that had become financially unstable. He suggested that the Federal Government needed a central data repository and that it actively worked with others on a strategy to create one, even though it was not clear where this repository is based or whether these projects would correspond to the data protection law. Shedd described these concerns as “roadblock” and said that the agency should still progress to see what was possible.

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Sources say that during the call the digital services of the United States – as “columns” of a new technological strategy, closely related TTS and the digital services of the United States than the United States Doge Service (Doge) later in this meeting he said that there was no plan to bring the two groups together, and that projects flow through them, depending on the personnel and specialist knowledge available, but continued to emphasize the upcoming cooperation between TTS and Doge.

According to sources, employees also asked questions about the young engineers who had not yet identified in meetings. Shedd said one of them felt comfortable enough to imagine in meetings on Monday, says sources, although Shedd was added that he was nervous that their names were publicly revealed and their lives were excited.

Shedd was unable to be exposed to many employees of employees on the resigned resignations of returning to the office assistant or to the agency’s employees, according to the sources. At one point, Shedd stated that the work cuts were likely for TTS, but refused to give more details. (Similar questions were also asked to lead the ministry’s state efficiency In a Friday meeting that was first reported by WIRED.))

Towards the end of the call, a TTS employee asked whether he was expected to work for more than 40 hours a week to cope with all the forthcoming work and potentially dismissed workers. Shedd replied that it was “unclear”.