LISTEN: NYC’s Comptroller on the AI Storm Coming for Our Economy, and Its Silver Linings
NYC Comptroller Brad Lander discusses the potential economic impact of AI agents, warning that government systems are currently ill-equipped to handle the high volume of automated requests they may generate.
What’s about to happen with agents is not just lowering the friction. The friction goes to zero. These systems could file an essentially unlimited number of any one of these types of requests to government, and we have no systems on our side to handle it, because we still have a person who’s cutting and […]
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