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'Thank goodness Councillor Gibson made that AI...'
This is what the majority of the council staff were currently thinking as they watched, with scalps tingling, as the AI processed trillions of applications thoroughly.
Had this been their job, the sheer workload alone would bury them in this office for the next decade without ever stepping out and might just actually drive them insane.
They had seen this coming before they made the announcement; that's why they agreed to wait until Gibson made an AI specifically for this job. But even so, they still grossly underestimated how eager the public would be.
Even the veteran workers of the council felt overwhelmed seeing the number of applications climbing, in real time, at the AI's counter. It's only slowing down because it was stipulated that people could only send their application once and because the AI was processing and filtering the applications according to priority while it was still receiving them.
