AI and Civil Service Purges

This essay warns that efforts by Trump and Elon Musk to use AI to streamline government—potentially replacing career civil servants with automated systems—risk concentrating power at the top, enabling rapid and unilateral policy shifts that could undermine democratic checks and produce biased or coercive outcomes; it contrasts these dangers with examples from Taiwan, Singapore, and Canada of more transparent, public-interest AI deployment and calls for gradual, accountable adoption with public oversight and guardrails.