By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 13/05/2026The public sector version of this is the fantasy that you can eliminate the civil service and use an army of chatbots to do the job. 30/ 190
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 13/05/2026It's not merely a way of slashing the federal budget, but also a way of purifying the transfer of the leader's will to the people without any intervening loss of fidelity resulting from the need to have your policies interpreted (and willfuly *misinterpreted*) by bureaucrats. 31/ 181
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 13/05/2026This is a very important framing, and it explains why fascists like Trump and dead-eyed technocrats like Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney are hell-bent on gutting their countries' civil service and replacing it with chatbots: policyoptions.irpp.org/2026/04/carn... 32/policyoptions.irpp.orgCarney’s AI push risks harm as Ottawa automates public servicesFrom immigration errors to social-assistance breakdowns, early use of automated systems shows how public services can fail without human judgment. 2116
