Elon Musk’s DOGE team recently outlined a plan to transform the United States federal government through an “AI-first strategy.” 

University of Michigan School of Information assistant professor Ben Green, an expert on artificial intelligence, says these plans are a “recipe for disaster” and may have negative repercussions on people’s rights. 

“Around the United States and the rest of the world, similar algorithms have cut vulnerable people off healthcare and violated human rights,” Green says. “A central reason for these flawed AI tools is that engineers underestimate the complexity of government processes. In turn, engineers embed their superficial assumptions into software and overestimate their tools’ capabilities.”

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Read Green’s oped, “DOGE Plan to Push AI Across the US Federal Government is Wildly Dangerous” at Tech Policy Press.

Learn more about UMSI assistant professor Ben Green by visiting his UMSI faculty profile and his personal website.