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I’ve been waiting to see how people are employing chatbots and LLM’s before worrying too much about it. Because so far it’s mostly been a weird and wasteful (and hugely overhyped) product from Silicon Valley that hasn’t been picked up too much in reality, because it makes tons of mistakes.

That’s not to say there’s nothing to be concerned about. I worry about kids and other vulnerable people spending too much time with bots, and there have been quite a few alarming ideas put forth by healthcare insurers to deploy AI as a way of saving money. But even there I feel like there will be cautious uptake on some of this, and mistakes will be noted, and will lead to lawsuits.

But this morning I read this WaPO article about DOGE’s planned 83,000 job cuts to the VA and in particular this line:

“Doctor administration work is important and not replaceable by AI,” the provider said in response to concerns that this administration has encouraged the use of artificial intelligence to replace work done by humans.

so, I feel like, we now see the plan for what it is: remove critically important VA staff and replace them with VA, presumably as a way of forcing a long term federal client for Silicon Valley’s latest product. And presumably with no oversight, judging from the 10-year AI regulation moratorium that these same guys are pushing.

Yikes!