AI is coming for your job, your voice ... and your worldview



Suddenly, artificial intelligence is everywhere — generating art, writing essays, analyzing medical data. It’s flooding newsfeeds, powering apps, and slipping into everyday life. And yet, despite all the buzz, far too many Americans — especially conservatives — still treat AI like a novelty, a passing tech fad, or a toy for Silicon Valley elites.

Treating AI like the latest pet rock tech trend is not only naïve — it’s dangerous.

The AI shift is happening now, and it’s coming for white-collar jobs that once seemed untouchable.

AI isn’t just another innovation like email, smartphones, or social media. It has the potential to restructure society itself — including how we work, what we believe, and even who gets to speak — and it’s doing it at a speed we’ve never seen before.

The stakes are enormous. The pace is breakneck. And still, far too many people are asleep at the wheel.

AI isn’t just ‘another tool’

We’ve heard it a hundred times: “Every generation freaks out about new technology.” The Luddites smashed looms. People said cars would ruin cities. Parents panicked over television and video games. These remarks are intended to dismiss genuine concerns of emerging technology as irrational fears.

But AI is not just a faster loom or a fancier phone — it’s something entirely different. It’s not just doing tasks faster; it’s replacing the need for human thought in critical areas. AI systems can now write news articles, craft legal briefs, diagnose medical issues, and generate code — simultaneously, at scale, around the clock.

And unlike past tech milestones, AI is advancing at an exponential speed. Just compare ChatGPT’s leap from version 3 to 4 in less than a year — or how DeepSeek and Claude now outperform humans on elite exams. The regulatory, cultural, and ethical guardrails simply can’t keep up. We’re not riding the wave of progress — we’re getting swept underneath it.

AI is shockingly intelligent already

Skeptics like to say AI is just a glorified autocomplete engine — a chatbot guessing the next word in a sentence. But that’s like calling a rocket “just a fuel tank with fire.” It misses the point.

The truth is, modern AI already rivals — and often exceeds — human performance in several specific domains. Systems like OpenAI’s GPT-4, Anthropic's Claude, and Google's Gemini demonstrate IQs that place them well above average human intelligence, according to ongoing tests from organizations like Tracking AI. And these systems improve with every iteration, often learning faster than we can predict or regulate.

Even if AI never becomes “sentient,” it doesn’t have to. Its current form is already capable of replacing jobs, overseeing supply chain logistics, and even shaping culture.

AI will disrupt society — fast

Some compare the unfolding age of AI as just another society-improving invention and innovation: Jobs will be lost, others will be created — and we’ll all adapt. But those previous transformations took decades to unfold. The car took nearly 50 years to become ubiquitous. The internet needed about 25 years to transform communication and commerce. These shifts, though massive, were gradual enough to give society time to adapt and respond.

AI is not affording us that luxury. The AI shift is happening now, and it’s coming for white-collar jobs that once seemed untouchable.

Reports published by the World Economic Forum and Goldman Sachs suggest job disruption to hundreds of millions globally in the next several years. Not factory jobs — rather, knowledge work. AI already edits videos, writes advertising copy, designs graphics, and manages customer service.

This isn’t about horses and buggies. This is about entire industries shedding their human workforces in months, not years. Journalism, education, finance, and law are all in the crosshairs. And if we don’t confront this disruption now, we’ll be left scrambling when the disruption hits our own communities.

AI will become inescapable

You may think AI doesn’t affect you. Maybe you never plan on using it to write emails or generate art. But you won’t stay disconnected from it for long. AI will soon be baked into everything.

Your phone, your bank, your doctor, your child’s education — all will rely on AI. Personal AI assistants will become standard, just like Google Maps and Siri. Policymakers will use AI to draft and analyze legislation. Doctors will use AI to diagnose ailments and prescribe treatment. Teachers will use AI to develop lesson plans (if all these examples aren't happening already). Algorithms will increasingly dictate what media you consume, what news stories you see, even what products you buy.

We went from dial-up to internet dependency in less than 15 years. We’ll be just as dependent on AI in less than half that time. And once that dependency sets in, turning back becomes nearly impossible.

AI will be manipulated

Some still think of AI as a neutral calculator. Just give it the data, and it’ll give you the truth. But AI doesn’t run on math alone — it runs on values, and programmers, corporations, and governments set those values.

Google’s Gemini model was caught rewriting history to fit progressive narratives — generating images of black Nazis and erasing white historical figures in an overcorrection for the sake of “diversity.” China’s DeepSeek AI refuses to acknowledge the Tiananmen Square massacre or the Uyghur genocide, parroting Chinese Communist Party talking points by design.

Imagine AI tools with political bias embedded in your child’s tutor, your news aggregator, or your doctor’s medical assistant. Imagine relying on a system that subtly steers you toward certain beliefs — not by banning ideas but by never letting you see them in the first place.

We’ve seen what happened when environmental social governance and diversity, equity, and inclusion transformed how corporations operated — prioritizing subjective political agendas over the demands of consumers. Now, imagine those same ideological filters hardcoded into the very infrastructure that powers our society of the near future. Our society could become dependent on a system designed to coerce each of us without knowing it’s happening.

Our liberty problem

AI is not just a technological challenge. It’s a cultural, economic, and moral one. It’s about who controls what you see, what you’re allowed to say, and how you live your life. If conservatives don’t get serious about AI now — before it becomes genuinely ubiquitous — we may lose the ability to shape the future at all.

This is not about banning AI or halting progress. It’s about ensuring that as this technology transforms the world, it doesn’t quietly erase our freedom along the way. Conservatives cannot afford to sit back and dismiss these technological developments. We need to be active participants in shaping AI’s ethical and political boundaries, ensuring that liberty, transparency, and individual autonomy are protected at every stage of this transformation.

The stakes are clear. The timeline is short. And the time to make our voices heard is right now.

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IRS flops on tech, bloats staff, fumbles mission — again



The Department of Government Efficiency and Elon Musk have kicked up a storm of commentary and speculation. Pair that uproar with the Trump administration’s plan to slash IRS staffing, and you get some of the most hysterical responses yet to the Trump/DOGE reforms.

Only in government does talk of doing more with less — of improving efficiency and productivity — trigger panic and outrage. In Washington, D.C., progress becomes a threat, not a goal.

Instead of whining about the DOGE’s proposed staffing cuts, politicians and pundits should demand the IRS do its actual job more efficiently. That requires systemic reform, not partisan noise.

According to multiple reports, the Trump administration plans to cut around 18,000 IRS jobs by mid-May — a 20% reduction in force expected to save taxpayers $1.4 billion in payroll and benefits next year. Of those cuts, 6,800 already came from terminated probationary employees. Another 4,700 took early retirement.

Critics didn’t wait for results. They declared it “historic,” “unprecedented,” and a sign of doom. The sun, they warned, might never rise again.

But we’ve seen this before. The world didn’t end. In fact, almost nothing changed at all.

In 2011, the IRS reported 94,709 full-time equivalent employees. By 2017 — after five years under the Obama administration — that number had dropped by more than 23%, to 72,803. The sun still rose. The sky didn’t fall.

Despite the staffing cuts, the IRS’ key performance metric — the voluntary compliance rate — barely budged. For decades, the VCR has served as the agency’s primary benchmark. It measures the percentage of taxes paid voluntarily and on time, compared to the total amount owed.

Commonly known as the “tax gap,” the VCR draws bipartisan attention. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle treat closing the gap as a fiscal priority — more compliance means more cash to spend.

Yet, through two decades of staffing shifts and budget battles, the VCR has remained remarkably stable — hovering around 84%, give or take a fraction.

Yes, adding more IRS agents might improve compliance on the margins. But staffing alone doesn’t guarantee better outcomes. What matters is how the agency sets its priorities and manages its workforce to deliver results that actually benefit taxpayers.

In 2012, the Government Accountability Office reviewed how the IRS could improve enforcement and shrink the tax gap. The GAO’s conclusion: The problem wasn’t a lack of staff. The IRS could significantly boost revenue simply by better targeting its enforcement resources.

That’s exactly what the DOGE is about: smarter management, better systems, and measurable results. The private sector achieves this through the pressure of competition. In government, such efficiency is about as rare as a unicorn.

Like every other agency the DOGE has examined, the IRS drifted from its core mission: collecting revenue and enforcing tax law. Instead of focusing on enforcement, the agency expanded into mission creep.

Trump plans to shut down the IRS Office of Civil Rights and Compliance — and for good reason. These bloated bureaucracies have become one of the most redundant features of Washington. The only thing more common than a civil rights office is a federally funded jobs training program.

And like rabbits, they just keep multiplying.

Then there is the Biden administration’s favorite: diversity, equity, and inclusion. Trump has rightly proposed shutting down DEI offices across the federal government. Hiring $200,000-a-year “senior diversity and inclusion specialists” at the IRS won’t close the tax gap — not by a long shot.

In the high-tech 21st century, the IRS still struggles with basic technology.

Just weeks ago, the Treasury Department’s inspector general released a report on the IRS’ Direct File pilot program. The IRS launched the program to help taxpayers file returns from February to April 2024 — and it flopped.

Despite existing free filing options from both the private sector and the IRS, Direct File was pushed forward as one of Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-Mass.) latest policy “experiments.” According to the inspector general, the project cost taxpayers at least $33.4 million — far more than initially disclosed.

The results were underwhelming. Only 140,803 of the 423,450 people who created Direct File accounts — just 33% — successfully submitted returns. Many of those who did lost out. The report noted that Direct File didn’t even allow eligible filers to claim their education tax credits. That’s not a minor oversight — it’s a costly failure and needs to go. Trump last week indicated he will end the program.

In just four years, Joe Biden added more than 20,000 full-time employees to the IRS. Did anyone notice the agency working better? Didn’t think so.

Instead of whining about the DOGE’s proposed staffing cuts, politicians and pundits should demand the IRS do its actual job — collect revenue and enforce the law — more efficiently. That requires systemic reform, not partisan noise.

The Trump administration gets it. It’s time the rest of Washington caught up.

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