Rudolf Rojas, an IT program manager at the USDA, stated that government staffing and resource cuts make keeping a human in the loop for AI tasks untenable. He argued that agencies must use AI tools to perform work and report back, relying on zero-trust principles and minimal privileges for security. Rojas also called for national regulations to ensure safe AI development, disagreeing with the idea of unrestricted corporate freedom. Other federal officials at the same summit discussed their agencies' approaches to AI governance, training, and cybersecurity challenges.
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