Here’s my hot take. DOGE is actually about collecting information under the guise of ‘saving money’. This information will then be used to train AI networks for products that e.g. Musk sells to the US and world-wide goverments to make decisions.
This is why I think Musk is trying to curry favour with other politicians around the world to collect even more information to train for products for them. e.g. in the UK, Nigel Farage who has been paid by Musk, is now singing Musk’s tune stating that each local council “needs a DOGE” (for no apparent reason) and shouldn’t be doing things like making local decisions to help climate change. Removing power from local councils would create a more powerful goverment… a fascist state perhaps…?
There was a lot of talk about using AI to power goverments at the start of Trump’s term which is now very quiet.
Thoughts?
I don’t think it is about that. The information collection is an added bonus they happily accept and make use of. I think it’s mainly about power and money, though. They get rid of everyone who isn’t completely in line and subservient. That’s from the playbook on how to become an autocratic regime. And they’re oviously interested in the money as well. Cut off everyone and everything they don’t like. Like weak people, poor people, your grandma and children. That money can then be funneled towards other people. I think the power and control aspect is the original idea though. And money has power as well. So does information and data, so it’s more a combination of things.