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Replacing civil servants with AI: 'The Netherlands is now brandishing the chainsaw popularized by Argentine President Javier Milei'

The Dutch Secretary of State for Administrative Efficiency wants to reduce the central administration's workforce by around 15% by 2035, or 25,000 fewer posts, by replacing them with artificial intelligence agents, writes Isabelle Chaperon, an economics columnist for Le Monde.

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Replacing civil servants with AI: 'The Netherlands is now brandishing the chainsaw popularized by Argentine President Javier Milei'

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