Elon Musk hopes to eventually replace the entire human workforce within the federal government, instead implementing machines and AI, a federal insider said, according to a new report.
Musk, a Donald Trump appointee and the richest man in the world, has been at the heart of several mass firings within the government. He has also reportedly used AI to accomplish some of his cost-cutting goals within the government.
A new weekend report suggests Musk's "end goal" ties these issues together.
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"In less than three weeks, Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service has followed the same playbook at one federal agency after another: Install loyalists in leadership. Hoover up internal data, including the sensitive and the classified. Gain control of the flow of funds. And push hard — by means legal or otherwise — to eliminate jobs and programs not ideologically aligned with Trump administration goals," the report states. "The DOGE campaign has generated chaos on a near-hourly basis across the nation’s capital. But it appears carefully choreographed in service of a broader agenda to gut the civilian workforce, assert power over the vast federal bureaucracy and shrink it to levels unseen in at least 20 years. The aim is a diminished government that exerts less oversight over private business, delivers fewer services and comprises a smaller share of the U.S. economy — but is far more responsive to the directives of the president."
The Washington Post cited "one official closely watching the billionaire’s DOGE" as saying Musk's motive is actually to replace “the human workforce with machines.”
"That push has been especially fierce at GSA, where DOGE staffers are telling managers that they plan to automate a majority of jobs, according to a person familiar with the situation," the Post states, before quoting a U.S. official closely watching DOGE activity.
"The end goal is replacing the human workforce with machines... Everything that can be machine-automated will be," the official said. "And the technocrats will replace the bureaucrats.”