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AI for government stuff imo focuses too much on the obvious questions about discretion, responsibility etc and not enough on the potential to optimize for organizational goals under process constraints (documentation, traceability, courtesy), which I think could have profound structural impact

"a computer can never be held accountable, so a computer must never make a management decision" was correct and we should go back to that

Feels like one of the big firewalls to huge AI automation of white collar screen work is just that lots of knowledge is too scattered across apps. An average task that requires some info from a jira ticket, an old email and a sharepoint pdf is just as quick now as it was in 2021