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What good AI in government actually looks like

Fast Company Tech Beth Simone Noveck April 14, 2026
What good AI in government actually looks like
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# AI in Government: A Tale of Two Approaches The article contrasts two opposite ways government can use AI: one administration used ChatGPT to automatically eliminate grants (including Holocaust documentaries and music history research) based on a single crude search, while a better approach would be using AI to help communities actually *find* and access the federal funding Congress already set aside for them. The key difference is whether AI is used as a weapon to cut programs or as a tool to help citizens get the money that's rightfully available to them.

Last spring, when employees from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency arrived at the National Endowment for the Humanities, they used ChatGPT to decide which federally funded grants to eliminate.  They typed one, simplistic prompt: “Does the following relate at all to D.E.I.

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