Can’t wait to find out it was just a guy in a suit.

I mean you can make up a lot of different names for an efficiency agency, I’m pretty sure Musk picked the name, as they renamed the Digital Services department to create Doge - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Government_Efficiency

The issue with your stats is it includes non commercial flights, but most people will only hear/care about commercial airline crashes, and 2025 has had a rough start - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_accidents_and_incidents_involving_commercial_aircraft_in_the_United_States

I could definitely see that being an issue where some people with automated wiki workflows are accidentally stringifying a null value and looking it up

Yeah, I think people forget that over half of the US pays no income tax because they literally don’t make enough. https://money.howstuffworks.com/only-53-percent-pay-income-tax.htm

Funding/empowering the IRS is really only going to impact people higher up the chain, which is why Republicans largely want to shrink the IRS.

Working in the field I think there is two things AI will make an impact on:

• Going after low skill white collar work (basically further automation of semi-skilled labor)
• Being an excuse to undercut high-skill white collar labor wages.

However, I suspect we’ll get a lot of the issues we saw with “outsourcing” where the end result is businesses pursuing cheaper outputs without concern for quality.