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Elon Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data. The next step: Unleash the AI. THE INSIDE STORY:

From day one: In Musk’s mind, Washington needed to be debugged. His strike teams of young engineers would burrow into the government’s byzantine bureaucratic systems and delete what they saw fit. They’d help Trump slash the budget to the bone. Read more: www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

In just a few weeks, DOGE gained access to untold terabytes of data. Trump had given Musk and his operatives carte blanche to tap any unclassified system they pleased. Read more: www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

On March 7, DOGE got one of the things it seemed to want most from GSA: a chatbot that could automate work previously done by federal employees. Inside Elon Musk’s ‘Digital Coup’:

Yeah, It’ll probably work as well as the program they made to find office space for returning Federal Workers. DOGE’s coding whiz kids slogan seems to be “Go Break Things Fast”. Really smart people are smart enough to know what they don’t know - but in my long tech career I’ve lost count

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