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If you are an OpenAI employee, you had an unusual view from your office this March: protestors in robot masks holding a “NO WAR STOP AI” sign and urging employees to quit. The protest captured the most dramatic fear about AI and the Pentagon, the use of AI with autonomous weapons, in battlefield decisions, and surveillance of American citizens.
But most government uses of these tools are likely to look more mundane. Agencies may use AI to summarize long documents, compare proposals, review comments, flag compliance issues, or help staff make sense of complex policy texts. Those uses sound administrative, but they still matter. When an agency changes AI vendors, it may also change what the system notices, downplays, or misses.
Additional authors: Isabelle Adler, Jeffrey Zhou, Claudio Mayrink Verdun