A Tesoro High graduate with a UC Berkeley degree is among Musk’s ‘Spartans’ who are accessing data at multiple federal agencies.
Gavin Kliger, left, and Ethan Shaotran are one of the 19 to 24-year-olds identified in media coverage as working for the Elon Musk-led White House agency Department of Government Efficiency. It’s not every day that a group of young Silicon Valley technology prodigies gets the keys to the most powerful nation on Earth. In fact, it appears that has not happened on any day. Ever. Until now.“I’ve never seen anything like it,” Stanford University economics professor Neale Mahoney said.
A former Eagle Scout with a black belt in Tae Kwon Do, Kliger enjoyed playing piano and clarinet, along with online speed chess, his resume said. A Harvard University bio of Shaotran lists two papers he wrote — one on pursuit of human-surpassing AI, another on improvement of self-driving vehicles — and a 111-page book published on Amazon about using AI for stock predictions. The bio identified him as the founder of Energize.AI, a “scheduling assistant for professionals,” and said he has filed patents related to AI computer vision, and logistical systems.
Bobba and Coristine are listed as “experts” in Office of Personnel Management records, Wired reported. The magazine cited unspecified sources at the General Services Administration who said Coristine had “appeared on calls where workers were made to go over code they had written and justify their jobs.
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