Integrating AI across the govt while minimizing disruptions to employees and services - takes genius of both mind and humanity
Lisa Wolfe
Computer Scientist | Protect Your Spirit From Corporate Burnout Author & Speaker | Host of Finding Water - AI Podcast
Having grown up in tech for the past 40 years and experiencing new tech being successfully rolled out multiple times a year, Change Management 101 has been the key to gaining the greatest efficiencies from the new tech while at the same time minimizing disruptions to employees, customers and services.
As AI makes it's way across the US government - Change Management is essential to ensure that AI is being applied where greatest efficiencies can be had while bringing along the people who are needed to ensure AI's lasting success verses simply cutting for the sake of cutting and automating chaos as quickly as possible - which will in the end result in even greater government spend and inefficiencies.
Looking at the benefits of AI when applied to the government, the one time AI investment and what future AI enhanced jobs look like - the following is a summary from Chat GPT:
Summary of U.S. Government Spending and AI Impact
This strategic investment in AI would result in significant cost savings and efficiency gains, modernizing government operations while supporting workforce transitions to new AI-enhanced roles.
Potential Annual Savings and Efficiency Gains:
Transition of Roles by Department:
As AI automates certain functions, employees can be retrained for new roles that oversee and enhance AI systems. Below is a list of a few roles in various government departments and their AI-enhanced counterparts:
Department Prior Role New AI-Enhanced Role
Department of the Treasury Tax Examiner ->AI Systems Auditor
Department of Health and Human Services Medical Records Technician -> AI Health Data Analyst
Department of Defense Intelligence Analyst -> AI Systems Trainer
Department of Justice Paralegal -> AI Legal Research Specialist
Department of Homeland Security Border Patrol Agent -> AI Surveillance Coordinator
Considerations: