‘We Don’t Want an AI Demo, We Want Answers’: Federal Workers Grill Trump Appointee During All-Hands

“When there are great tools there, the GSA mission is to buy it, not to make medium alternatives,” a colleague added.

Have you used this artificial intelligence to organize? [reduction in force]? Another federal worker asked.

When will you return Adobe Pro? ” Another said. “This is an important program that we use daily. Please repeat this or at least a date it will return to.”

It also pushed the employees back against the mandate of the return to the office. “how [return to office] Increased cooperation when none of our customers, contractors or people is on [integrated product teams] Will you be in the same office? He asked the GSA worker.

One of the employees asked about the Duwaij team in GSA. “There is no DOGE team in GSA,” he answered EHIKIAN, according to employees with direct knowledge of the events. Employees, who watched the DOGE employees in GSA, did not buy it. “We have not noticed a group of young children working behind a safe area on the sixth floor.” Luke Varitor, a former trainee at Spacex, has been seen working in Dog from the first days of the organization, wearing sunglasses inside the GSA office in recent weeks, as was Ethan Shtran, a young worker, the last Harvard Chair Club, was seen. The GSA Shaotran employee described “a wide smile in the jacket and the shirt.”

GSA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

During the meeting, EHIKIAN displayed the GSA-size and size segment details, simplification processes, abolition of restrictions, and innovation in information technology-as well as providing the current cost. “The total cost costs” were listed at $ 1.84 billion. The number of employees who use artificial intelligence tools designed by GSA was included in 1,383. It was said that the number of hours that was saved from automation is 178352. EHIKIAN indicated that the agency had canceled or reduced 35,354 credit cards used by government workers and ended 683 properties. (Wire cannot confirm any of these statistics. It is known that DOGE is involved in misleading and inaccurate statistics regarding preparing for costs.)

“Any efficiency account needs a shrine,” wrote an employee of GSA in the chat. “Discounts can reduce expenditures, but can also reduce the value that is delivered to the American public. How is it captured in the performance card?”

In a segment entitled “The Road forward”, Ikeyan put his vision for the future. Federal real estate portfolio, read one column. “Central purchases”, read another. The sub -categories included “reducing the compliance burden to increase competition”, “centralization of our data to be available through the difference”, and “improving cloud spending and GSA programs”.

On the Internet, the employees seemed cautious. Therefore, will Stephen restrict himself to work on any federal contracts after his term as a GSA official, especially with regard to AI and IT program? ” One employee request to chat. There was no answer.