In Monday morning meeting, Thomas shed, recently appointed Director of technology change service And Elon Musk Associate, told General service administration worker The agency's new administrator is following an “AI-first strategy”, telling the source Wired.
During the meeting, the shed shared its vision for a GSA, which operates like a “startup software company”, automatic various internal functions and centralize data from the federal government.
Monday's meeting, in-tradition and Google were held on meat, after a few days after Wired, it has been said that many Musk's colleagues have gone to jobs The highest level and personnel management office (OPM) of GSA. Before joining TTS, which is placed within GSA, one of the companies of Shed Musk was a software engineer in Tesla. The infection has created a large confusion among the GSA employees, which have been surprised in one-one meetings, forced to present their code-Often for young engineers who did not identify themselves-And left thinking what the future of the agency's technical task force would look like.
SHEDD on Monday attempted to answer these questions, providing details on several projects, the agency will move forward in the coming weeks and months. His special attention, sources say, for AI, not only in GSA, but agencies had an increased role of government-wide.
He said that he has described as “AI-first strategy”, sources say, the shed has provided a handful of projects to prefer GSA acting administrator Stephen Ehikians, in which ” The development of AI coding agents “will also be provided to all agencies. SHEDD made it clear that it can be automated, of great work in the wider government, especially around finance works, especially in the government.
“It raises red flags,” a cyber security expert who was given an oblivion due to vengeance concerns, told Wired on Monday, who said that the government automatically is not the same as to automatically to automatically, such as Self-driving car. “Especially those who are not experts in subject domains, coming to projects often think that 'it is dumb' and then find out how difficult it is really.”
SHEDD instructed employees to think about TTS as a software startup that had become financially unstable. He suggested that the federal government needs a centralized data repository, and he was actively working with others on a strategy to make a strategy, although it was not clear where this repository would be based or if these projects Will follow privacy laws. The shed referred these concerns as “Roadlock” and said the agency should still move forward to see what was possible.
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Sources say that during the call shed tightly connected TTS and United States Digital Services – Trump under the United States' Dogi Seva, or Dogi – as “columns” of a new technical strategy. Later in the meeting, he said that there were no plans to merge two groups and that projects would flow through both of them on the basis of available employees and expertise, but continued to emphasize the upcoming cooperation between TTS and Dogi. .
Employees, sources say, questions were also asked about young engineers, who were not identifying themselves in the first meetings. The shed said that one of them felt enough enough to present himself in the meetings on Monday, the sources say, although the shed said that he was nervous about appearing in public and rejected his life. Was done.
According to sources, SHEDD was unable to answer the questions of several employees, which would return to the office mandate, or the agency employees would face adequate cuts. At one point, SHEDD indicated that the workforce for TTS was likely to be cut, but refused to give more details. (Similar questions were also asked from the government's efficiency, the leadership department. First reported by Wired in a Friday meeting,
At the end of the call, sources say, a TTS worker asked if they would be expected to do more than 40 hours per week to deal with the upcoming work and potentially laid workers. The shed replied that it was “vague”.