In his hands Department of Government Effectiveness of Masculinethe US government is experiencing a very worrying brain drain in the field of technology. This is in danger of leaving the country unprepared for any upcoming crisis, especially the threat created by artificial intelligence for the coming years.

When former President Barack Obama created the United States Digital Service in 2014, the challenge was: How do you convince the brightest talent to give up her wealth Silicon And instead to work in difficult and at all … sexy products for something relatively insignificant?

USDS – a startup from an elite group within the government, in fact – has created technologies that have improved the lives of millions of Americans. It upgraded websites that looked like they were designed in the 1990s. He manufactured the free tax -filled system, a service that recorded a 90% satisfaction rate of users. It drastically improved VA.GOV, the service used by more than 1.5 million veterans each month to access the full range of benefits available.

When the Covid -9 hit, it was the USDS that quickly gathered the complex system that quickly coordinated Americans with the available vaccines. Over 100 million people used it. Under the president Donald Trump And Musk, the USDS is collapsing now.

Trump renamed the USDS to the United States Doge service, which allowed the government to start the Crusade of Musk to reduce costs without the approval of Congress. This enabled Doge the opportunity to recruit the government departments, dismissing employees and creating chaos.

The abolition of USDS will end up on progress on accelerating online government services. Then comes the issue of the impact of artificial intelligence that has not yet been fully understood – another area where the proposed cuts could leave the US at a disadvantage, as technology is approaching a turning point.

According to Axios, the recently settled AI Security Institute (AISI) It is also on the list along with nearly 500 jobs at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). AISI was created thanks to President Joe Biden’s executive decree to cooperate and monitor the artificial intelligence made and developed by companies such as Openai and Anthropic. He had created a government -based work group for risk assessment, “laying the foundations for the safety of artificial intelligence around the world”.

Given the lack of action of Congress For artificial intelligence, it could be regarded as one of the few steps taken by the US to watch Silicon Valley’s worst exaggerations.

If AISI was destroyed, as reports, it could also harm international relations on security issues surrounding AI. AISI had worked with many other countries to coordinate research projects that can now remain in the air. US -based artificial intelligence companies may be less willing to work with researchers working for foreign governments. A person who works closely with the UK government on the security of artificial intelligence said US cuts reflect widespread confusion about White House policies for artificial intelligence.

The long -term damage of all of these is difficult to calculate but difficult to overestimate.

A disassembled AISI will make it more difficult to monitor and limit the self -serving actions of the high -stark market for artificial intelligence. A weakened USDS leaves the USA less capable of providing citizens the services they deserve.

To handle the next, the US needs the best and brilliant technological talent in their payroll. The dismissal of smart minds in these critical government services can and will have boomerangs.

Of Dave Lee by Bloomberg