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Characterizing Agentic Flooding of Government Services

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>Reduce the Expected Benefit. This could be the chance to reverse America out of becoming a welfare state.

Stop corporate welfare first.

It can be done in parallel. There is no need to try and introduce sequentiality.

Re: Characterizing Agentic Flooding of Government Services

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Which is why they get paid, of course. I feel more sympathy to the recipients ts who are eligible for benefits but unable to receive them due to onerous paperwork. AI is an equalizer between the desperate amateur and the bureaucratic professionals who know how to effectively navigate their side of the system. For example, I just hooked an agent up to call my internet company to negotiate a discount. Without that capa…

My wife works in handling large grant applications for government. She works with the applicants through the process and then evaluates the app when it comes in. She guesses that about half of her work comes from 3 or 4 cases which are clear failures on basic criteria, they have been repeatedly told they need to fix those cases and when the decision is made, they appeal it on every single minute point. They are absol…

Sorry, I don’t understand. Do you mean it’s fraudulent and just trying to find someone who rubber stamps it so they can get benefits they are not entitled to?
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