National Journal

For years the debate around artificial intelligence has been dominated by two extremes: the “doomers” who fear that unfettered advancement of the technology will lead to a catastrophic robot apocalypse, and the accelerationists, who argue that AI will ultimately unlock a utopian future, so it must be developed at all costs.  Governments have attempted to walk a tightrope between the two groups, supporting technological advancements while putting up guardrails in the hopes of curtailing the thre

In the nearly three weeks since Donald Trump was sworn in as president, Elon Musk and a small cohort of young loyalists have torn through the D.C. bureaucracy blindly and possibly illegally, blocking federal spending and pushing out anyone who stands in their way.  Thomas Shedd, a former Tesla engineer who was recently made director of Technology Transformation Services at the General Services Administration, told staffers that he wants to transform the agency into the image of a Silicon Valley