The "AI" scare is getting ridiculous. I loved The Terminator, but i dont believe Skynet is in our future. The government is full of bloat like nothing we've seen before. Remember this--

"Write down 5 things you did this week and email it to your supervisor."

I live in an area with a large federal project that gets billions of dollars in grants. Everyone has worked there or knows someone who works there. People have complained about it since the 90s. Everyone is over paid, and under worked. Sit around and play cards and have cookouts alot of times. I believe "AI" can weed out alot of this waste.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons is developing an AI system to assess the “potential for misconduct for newly admitted inmates,” routing people into high-security confinement before they have actually done anything wrong in their custody

Often enough many of the people entering the Federal Prison system aren’t first timers. And usually have rap sheets of Local and State Charges. It logically makes sense to filter the ones liable to cause problems preemptively. Especially when many Prisons are as a general rule of thumb horrifically understaffed. When it comes to the ratio of guards to prisoners.

As to the general content of the article. It’s amusing there are people out there starting to pearl clutch after getting what they said they wanted. They wanted fewer Federal Employees and greater efficiency and functionality in Government. They’re getting fewer Federal Employees and greater efficiency and functionality in Government.

It just so happens it’s a bit of a Monkeys Paw wish scenario.