At a meeting on Monday, Thomas Shedd, recently appointed Technology Transformation Director and Elon musk Ally, she said Workers of the Management Board of General Services That the new agency administrator implements the “AI-FIRST strategy”, sources say Wired.
Throughout the meeting, Shedd shared its vision of GSA, which operates like a “software starting company”, automating various internal tasks and centralizing data from the entire Federal Government.
Meeting on Monday, held in person and on Google Meet, comes for days after Wired reported that many were Men’s associates went to work at the highest levels of GSA and the Staff Management Office (OPM). Before joined by TTS, which is located in GSA, Shedd was a software engineer in Tesla, one of Musk’s companies. The transition caused a mass confusion among GSA employees who were thrown out to meetings one-on-one, forced to present their code-Often young engineers who have not been identified– And wondering what the future of the technological working group of the agency will look like.
Shedd tried to answer these questions on Monday, providing details about numerous projects that the Agency would follow over the coming weeks and months. His special focus, sources say, was an increased role for AI not only in GSA, but also in agencies throughout the Government.
In what he described as “Ai-first strategy,” sources say, Shedd provided a handful of examples of projects that GSA administration acting administrator Stephen Ehikian seeks priority, including the development of “AI agent for encoding” that would be available for all agencies. Shedd made it clear that he believed that most of the work on the TTS Government, especially around financial tasks, could be automated.
“This raises red flags,” said a cyber -safety expert, who received anonymity for retaliation, Wired said on Monday, who noted that the automation of the Government is not the same as automation of other things, like the car -driven car. “Especially people who are not experts in the domain in question, entering projects often think it’s” stupid “, and then find out how much the matter is really.”
Shedd sent employees to think of TTS as a software that became financially unstable. He suggested that the Federal Government needed a centralized data repository and that he was actively cooperating with others on the creation strategy, though it was not clear where this storage room would be based or these projects would be in accordance with privacy laws. Shedd called these worries a “blockade of the road” and said that the agency should still push forward to see what is possible.
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Sources say that during the call, SHADD has firmly linked TTS and the digital services of the United States – rebounded as the United States of Doge Service, or Doge, under Trump – as “pillars” of new technological strategies. Later at the meeting, he said that there was no plan to connect two groups and that the projects would go through them, depending on the staff and expertise available, but continued to emphasize the upcoming cooperation between TTS Doge.
Employees, sources say, also asked questions about young engineers, who had not previously identified themselves at meetings. Shedd said one of them felt comfortable enough to present themselves at meetings on Monday, sources say, although Shedd added that he was nervous because their names were publicly discovered and that their lives were raised.
Shedd failed to answer many staff questions about delayed resignation, returning to the office mandate, or if agency staff were facing significant reductions, according to sources. At one point, Shedd indicated that the reduction of labor were probably for TTS, but refused to give more details. (Similar questions are also asked the leadership of the Government Efficiency Department At a meeting on Friday that first reported Wired.)
Towards the end of the call, the sources say, TTS worker asked if he would be expected to work more than 40 hours a week, in order to deal with all the upcoming work and potentially discharged workers. Shedd replied that it was “unclear”.