What good AI in government actually looks like

Last spring, when employees from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency arrived at the National Endowment for the Humanities, they used ChatGPT to decide which federally funded grants to eliminate. 

They typed one, simplistic prompt: “Does the following relate at all to D.E.I.? Respond factually in less than 120 characters. Begin with ‘Yes’ or ‘No.’”

A documentary about Jewish women forced into slave labor during the Holocaust? DEI. A 40-volume scholarly series on the history of American music?