Ep 8: AI v/s Governments : What is really going on? | Travis Good, CEO & Co-founder of Ambient

The US IRS system update is one of the most notoriously bad IT projects in history with billions wasted on fraud and abuse. The IRS was using punch cards and still hasn't gotten off them completely. We expose why governments are incredibly slow moving and not responsive to citizens they're accountable to. If they can't get taxation right, which funds everything they do and should be the most important function, what will they actually be good at? The answer historically in the US has been almost nothing. State and federal governments interact with very local governments using incompatible systems, creating maximum friction. LLMs can take virtually infinite text content and turn it into question and answer bots that help citizens access complex government services. People might wait 20 years in some cases to get a US green card because there's no fast way to get decisions. The impulse is to automate passport applications, Medicaid eligibility, and Medicare decisions using private software. This makes government decision-making loops dependent on completely opaque entities that run on ads and are essentially unauditable. Governments shouldn't invest in technologies that further segregate the commons or offer private companies benefits from what should be private government data. Before becoming a buyer, governments need to find a gem out of the trash bag and understand the playground first. Should governments be automating life-changing decisions about your passport, healthcare, and green card using private AI systems you can never audit?~~~Hosted by Travis Good, CEO & Co-Founder of ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Ambient⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: an SVM-compatible PoW L1 that will serve as a cornerstone of the agentic economy. Ambient has raised $7.2M from a16z, CSX, Delphi Digital and Amber Group. It is 10x more efficient than incumbent crypto AI systems. Ambient believes AI is money and is working to democratize it. Find us on: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠X⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Youtube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Ambient Chat⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Find Travis on: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠X⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Find our Litepaper ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here.