AI’s from the government. Is it here to help?

Although Josh Tyrangiel made some solid points about potential beneficial uses of artificial intelligence in his March 7 Opinions Essay, “Let AI remake the whole U.S. government,” the ideas he described are not comparable to saving our country.

The use of AI could prove advantageous in making organ donations more efficient and data more organized. But unless such programs can also achieve significant cuts to health-care costs and help medical professionals check their implicit biases, they would not “save” the health-care system.

And while Mr. Tyrangiel briefly noted the possibility of job losses and data breaches that AI could bring, he did not detail how job losses would be deterred or how AI would affect the unemployment rate. These could be significant problems for the government and the country.

Finally, a large focus of Mr. Tyrangiel’s article was on leading AI-development company Palantir and its difficult relationship with the U.S. government. America is well-known for being a “salad bowl” of people of different ethnicities and races. Tyrangiel glossed over the fact that one of the co-founders, Peter Theil, “dislikes multiculturism.” As the United States grapples with social reform, entangling the government with a company whose co-founder “dislikes multiculturism” could prove to be problematic. After all, part of saving the country involves rebuilding trust.

Pebbles Cottingham, La Grange, Calif.

AI’s from the government. Is it here to help?

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