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Mark Pocan: “Someone who lost some funding, had nothing to do with…”

Featuring: Mark Pocan, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 2

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With Liberty and Justice for Some Ep. 61 with McManus

Published | Video Starts at 40:32

It was done so stupidly. And those two Doge Bros. Depositions showing how they used chat GPT to find words like diversity and stuff. And you know, someone just told me about Someone who lost some funding, had nothing to do with diversity, equity, inclusion, but they had in their grant proposal something about a diverse mix and that was enough to get them knocked out and lose funding. And again, it's just a mindless approach towards our government. Yeah, absolutely. Look, I'm sure that there are. I'm 100% sure there's ways that we could integrate new technologies, artificial intelligence, to make the work more efficient. (40:32–40:45)

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