If the job of a government bureaucrat was to provide value to taxpayers, you would be right and AI would finally be the technology to right-size governments. I’m afraid that is not what their job actually is. Ultimately, everyone on the government payroll ensures the system keeps going as is—extracting value from everyone still actually creating value. I have come to believe that government employees are already receiving a form of UBI, together with the implicit oath to keep the system going. Take a look at this…