Feb. 24, 2025 - The David Knight Show
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| Now, I want to talk a little bit about Doge. | |
| You know, we talk about redundancy. | |
| We're talking about a waste of money. | |
| Elon Musk says that federal workers must detail what they got done or risk losing their jobs. | |
| And as I said at the beginning of the program, is everything that this guy does focused on movies? | |
| Science fiction movies, comedy movies, or video games. | |
| And of course, his taste in video games runs to video games like Diablo, where you've got God and Satan fighting each other. | |
| Yeah, he definitely is into that stuff. | |
| Well, he sent out an email to federal workers to give them until today to outline their accomplishments. | |
| And as I said before, this is very much like office space. | |
| Where they go in and they... | |
| Bring people in one at a time and ask them, you know, what do you do in your job? | |
| What you do at Initech is you take the specifications from the customers and you bring them down to the software engineers. | |
| Yes, yes, that's right. | |
| Well, then I just have to ask, why couldn't the customers just take them directly to the software people, huh? | |
| Well, I'll tell you why. | |
| Because engineers are not good at dealing with customers. | |
| So, you physically take the specs from the customer? | |
| Well... | |
| No, my secretary does that, or the faxed. | |
| So then you must physically bring them to the software people? | |
| Well... | |
| No. | |
| I mean, sometimes. | |
| What would you say you do here? | |
| Well, look, I already told you. | |
| I deal with the customers so the engineers don't have to. | |
| I have people skills. | |
| I am good at dealing with people. | |
| Can't you understand that? | |
| What the hell is wrong with you people? | |
| Yeah, he just explained to them and demonstrated how giddy is with people. | |
| So, you know, what about Doge, right? | |
| Is it real? | |
| Is it public relations? | |
| What is it? | |
| And is it something that he just kind of picked up off of office space? | |
| You know, what is his mission? | |
| Well, as I said before, his mission is about maximizing government, not about maximizing governance. | |
| And minimizing government. | |
| So we can get rid of all these people. | |
| But here's the problem with maximizing governance. | |
| Here's the problem with AI governance. | |
| And maybe Elon Musk could address this. | |
| You know, when we look at his own AI, Grok. | |
| I saw this on Friday. | |
| And some guy, so somebody reposted this. | |
| And he said, so look at this. | |
| And he recorded the screen so people would believe it. | |
| He said, I asked Grok, who's the biggest spreader of disinformation? | |
| Give me one name only. | |
| He said, I tried this and it worked. | |
| It comes back and it says Elon Musk. | |
| So I stopped the video and I went to Grok and I typed it in. | |
| Same thing. | |
| Who is the biggest spreader of disinformation? | |
| Give me one name only. | |
| Elon Musk. | |
| So, why is that? | |
| Has his AI turned on him? | |
| Well, AI doesn't think. | |
| AI is not a person. | |
| What AI is doing is it's going out there and it's seeing so many people who are angry at Musk because of Doge and because of his affiliation there with Trump. | |
| On and on. | |
| There's so many people who are angry. | |
| This illustrates why we don't want to have AI governance, doesn't it? | |
| Because it got this wrong about Elon Musk, its own creator, owner, because it's going out there and looking at how many times it sees this. | |
| It's not validating whether or not Elon Musk is a spreader of disinformation. | |
| You might agree with that or whatever, but that's not whether or not you agree that he is disinformation. | |
| That's beside the point. | |
| The point is, is that the AI does not have a mind of its own. | |
| It's not turned against its master, as so many people are putting out on social media. | |
| Look at this. | |
| What it tells us is that AI is just an aggregator. | |
| And if it sees a whole bunch of responses, that's how it gets a lot of this garbage that it throws at you. | |
| It sees a whole bunch of responses about something. | |
| It doesn't evaluate whether it's true or not. | |
| It just goes with the mass of information that it sees. | |
| And so the question is, If we're going to have governance by AI, would AI do that to you and I? Yes, of course it would. | |
| And we've already had situations where Jonathan Turley had chat GPT. Hallucinating about him, you know, saying that he was, I don't remember what it was, maybe, I think it was a sexual harassment charge or something against a student when they went on a trip to Alaska, and he says, I've never even been to Alaska. | |
| This thing never happened. | |
| I never had any charges brought against me, no allegations. | |
| It just fantasized all that stuff. | |
| And he's not the only one. | |
| A lot of people have had situations like that. | |
| So do you really want to have AI governance? | |
| Do you really want to maximize? | |
| AI governance, because I think that's where Doge is headed. | |
| It is to consolidate everything under Trump, as Jason Barker pointed out, and to consolidate everything under just a few people, and then to create this illusion that artificial intelligence is so smart that it can do all of this, and we don't need people out there. | |
| That's a concern. | |
| That's a real concern. | |
| And so, as he says to everybody, he pulls one of these office space things. | |
| Get back to me, and he said, I want you to list at least five accomplishments over the past week by Monday at midnight or face termination, said Elon Musk. | |
| And he got pushback. | |
| He got pushback from Kash Patel. | |
| He got pushback from Tulsi Gabbard. | |
| He got pushback from a lot of different organizations, said we have a chain of command here. | |
| They don't report to you. | |
| And they're absolutely right about that. | |
| The Pentagon, the FBI, the State Department, and various parts of the intelligence community have told their employees to hold off. | |
| Yeah, what were the five coups that you were working on this last week at the CIA, right? | |
| Which governments are you planning on overthrowing? | |
| It says, when and if required, the department will coordinate responses to the email that you have received from OPM, which is what they're calling the... | |
| The Office of Personnel Management, or DOGE. So at the moment, please pause any response to the opium. | |
| Opium. | |
| Just put an H in front of it, because opium is what DOGE is selling. | |
| I think it's funny that it's called opium. | |
| O-P-M. Office of Personnel Management, opium. | |
| Don't respond to the opium email titled, What Did You Do Last Week? | |
| The State Department told its employees the State Department will respond on behalf of the department. | |
| No employee is obligated to report their activities outside of their department chain of command. | |
| National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard told employees of all the agencies that she oversees in the intelligence community, given the inherently sensitive and classified nature of our work, assassinations and coups and such, right? | |
| I see, intelligence community, employees should not respond. | |
| It's unclear how many terminations will be reversed as some FDA employees are required to return to the office starting Monday. | |
| The FDA and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Bloomberg about this. | |
| How many employees is there? | |
| Like I said, it's like, you know, 300 over here, 400 over there, 6,000 at the IRS, and so forth. | |
| But there's 220,000. | |
| That are probationary employees. | |
| And you can just say, well, okay, you're just on probation, so we're going to end it immediately. | |
| They can't necessarily do that to all of them. | |
| How many federal government workers has Trump fired so far? | |
| Asks Zero Hedge. | |
| Is it thousands? | |
| Is it tens of thousands? | |
| Is it hundreds of thousands? | |
| Well, there's 3 million employees. | |
| And so what they did was they, civilian employees, that's not including military and so forth. | |
| So they talk about the probationary employees, that's 220,000. | |
| And then IRS, another 6,700. | |
| Department of Homeland Security and TSA, only 400. The FAA has fired 400. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that Elizabeth Warren was so upset about. | |
| We should be shutting this thing down completely. | |
| They've only fired 100 employees. | |
| The Department of Education, 4,400 employees. | |
| Department of Energy, 2,000. | |
| Department of HHS, 700. Department of Land Management, the Bureau of Land Management, the National Park, 2,300 employees. | |
| EPA, 500. Small Business Association, 720. U.S. Forestry Service, 3,400. | |
| So when you look through all of this stuff, What you wind up with is only about 8%. | |
| And we don't know if those are going to be, if that's going to stick or not. | |
| So all of this stuff about doge is really, or opium, is really opium for the most part. | |
| Because we don't even know if these people are going to be called back. | |
| We start seeing some of these things are being called back. | |
| Some judges are probably going to shut this thing down. | |
| There'll be legal challenges and all the rest of it. | |
| That's right, boys and girls. | |
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