The draft executive order would eliminate Africa operations and shut down bureaus working on democracy, human rights and refugee issues.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/21081043

No, you can’t replace diplomacy and consular services with AI. What you’ll get instead is dominance over the region by Russia and China

  • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    12 days ago

    The draft executive order is one of several internal documents that have circulated in the administration in recent days laying out proposed changes to the State Department. Another memo outlines a proposed cut of nearly 50 percent to the agency’s budget in the next fiscal year. Yet another internal memo proposes cutting 10 embassies and 17 consulates.

    Since it marginalizes most of Africa, cuts unnecessarily, and pushes AI, I can only assume Elon wrote it. Rubio may be calling it “fake news” because he intends to do essentially the same stuff, but have ChatGPT rewrite it enough so he can take credit.