[LINK] Rebuilding the public service with AI

[Roger Clarke]

On 28/7/2025 10:31, Tom Worthington wrote:
> Greetings from the AI Colab at the Australian National University in 
> Canberra, where I am taking part in "From red tape to algorithm: 
> Reimagining the public service in an AI age". I the first group activity 
> we came up with an interplanetary travel system with a punk ascetic. 
> https://blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/07/rebuilding-public-service-with-ai.html

I think you're confusing ascetic monks with punk aesthetics
(which, to an old fuddy-duddy, is a wonderful oxymoron).

I'm wondering where the 'public service' is in 'interplanetary travel'.

Garbage collection?
SpaceGuard?
Internet infrastructure, e.g. relays on planets, moons, asteroids?

Surely they're all subcontracted to Elon Musk already.


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