So, We Can’t Trust Computers To Tabulate Election Results…

 

…but we can trust AI to evaluate responses to a vague request to explain why what you did is “mission critical”? For 3 million people working in agencies as diverse as the judiciary, the parks system, national defense, ATF (Treasury), the Mint (Fort Knox: “I put the gold back.”); HHS (“ I made sure no one got vaccinated.”), to FAA (“I made sure nobody pestered Elmo about the rocket debris.”).

Sure. That seems reliable and transparent.

Oh, by the way:

In an email to its workforce on Monday, the Justice Department said that during a meeting with the interagency Chief Human Capital Officers Council, OPM informed agencies that employee responses to the email are voluntary. OPM also clarified that despite what Musk had posted, a non-response to the email does not equate to a resignation, the email said.

The directive was facing pushback from unions, workers and even some agencies since it was sent, but the effort was praised by President Donald Trump earlier Monday.

“I thought it was great,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, where he was meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron.

"We have people that don’t show up to work and nobody even knows if they work for the government so by asking the question ‘tell us what you did this week,’ what he's doing is saying are you actually working. And then, if you don’t answer, like, you’re sort of semi-fired or you're fired," he said, claiming without providing evidence that "a lot of people are not answering because they don't even exist."

I guess Trump’s gonna have to fire more people at DOJ. You know, for setting up barriers….