Hamza Adam 
Tech billionaire Elon Musk went on Fox News Thursday, alongside a gaggle of his Department of Government Efficiency software engineers, to defend and justify his takeover and purge of the civil service.
But a CNN panel was less than impressed with some of his answers.
“It is interesting that Musk is saying now we’re taking a more measured approach, and yet the person who’s leading these cuts is someone who is not known for that kind of approach,” noted New York Times tech reporter Kate Conger.
“Yeah, I mean, that seems to be the bottom line here,” agreed anchor Erin Burnett, turning to political strategist and former Kamala Harris staffer Jamal Simmons. “I mean, the goal is still the goal. And I know that, you know, he’s trying to be more measured. He’s trying to be more calm. Those are good things, right? But the belief that they came in with was the images that Elon Musk has put out, images of, you know, it’s like it’s like watching the ‘Lord of the Rings,’ you know, going out and getting Social Security documents from some sort of a vault, right? Mocking the entire system.”
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“Here’s the question that arrives to me,” said Simmons. “Why are they being so secretive about this? Bret Baier asked them, are you going to release a report? And Musk said, ‘Oh, well, I don’t know about that.’ He kind of mealy-mouthed his way around that after he said he’s only going to be there for 130 days, but apparently there’s not going to be a report about what they did.”
“The second question was about — he asked him, ‘oh, are you going to replace some of this with AI?'” said Simmons. “And they sort of changed the subject and started talking about something else. This is what people are worried about: One who’s going to have accountability for what they did. And also, they got rid of a bunch of [inspectors general]. And then two, are they going to replace a lot of these human beings with AI? And who owns that AI? And is that AI connected to Elon Musk’s AI?”
The bottom line, he said, is “there are a lot of really big questions here that I think the American public deserve answers to.”
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