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This article critiques the Trump administration's rapid AI adoption in federal government, highlighting risks of replacing experienced civil servants with chatbots, reduced transparency, and AI-enabled surveillance—relevant to AI governance and deployment safety concerns.
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The Revolving Door Project analyzes how the Trump administration is deploying AI across federal agencies to replace fired civil servants, power immigration surveillance, and reduce government transparency. The piece argues that tech companies have received deregulatory concessions in exchange for building AI tools aligned with the administration's ideological requirements. It documents specific harms including erosion of worker power, civil liberties violations, and reduced public accountability.
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- •Over 148,000 federal employees have left since Trump took office, with AI explicitly cited as the planned replacement for lost staff capacity.
- •Tech companies received policy concessions (deregulation, permitting, export support) in exchange for building 'non-woke' AI tools for government use.
- •AI is being used to power surveillance and deportation operations, raising significant civil liberties concerns.
- •The administration revoked Biden-era AI safety directives requiring 'safe, secure, and trustworthy' AI development and use.
- •The piece maintains a tracker documenting Trump administration AI uses, focusing on worker replacement, surveillance, and transparency reduction.
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The Chatbotification of the Federal Government
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The Trump administration uses AI to fulfill its typical antisocial ends: eroding worker power, violating civil liberties, and reducing transparency and accountability.
Trump and executives from OpenAI, Google, Oracle, Apple, Microsoft, Meta, and other tech companies gathered in the White House to “unite to power AI dominance” and, apparently, offer sycophantic quotes praising the president for a White House press release . The surplus of em-dashes raises the question: whose chatbot wrote the copy?
While nearly 7 million Americans marched in “No Kings” protests on Saturday to protest Trump’s lawlessness, the president reposted an AI-generated video of himself in a fighter jet wearing a crown and dumping massive quantities of feces on protestors below.
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Tech companies willing to play along with Trump’s ideological requirements prohibiting “woke” ideology in AI models used by the government have been rewarded with significant policy concessions. Trump has issued executive orders revoking Biden-era directives for “safe, secure, and trustworthy” development and use of AI, accelerating federal permitting of new AI data centers, and supporting AI exports. The White House also released an AI Action Plan outlining how the administration will create favorable conditions for the AI industry, including by rejecting “radical climate dogma and bureaucratic red tape” to (hang on to your hat, Abundance readers): “Build, Baby, Build!”
We’ll be writing more soon about how the Trump administration is fueling Big Tech’s energy-intensive vision for “AI dominance.” The focus of this newsletter is how th
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