'We want answers — not an AI demo!' Trump official cornered by workers on all-hands call...

'We want answers — not an AI demo!' Trump official cornered by workers on all-hands call

The first all-hands meeting hosted by President Donald Trump’s pick to head the General Services Administration set off a behind-the-scenes verbal onslaught by frustrated employees who turned to the meeting’s livestream chat to vent their anger.

That’s according to a new report in Wired, which obtained leaked chats detailing plans broadcast by GSA’s acting administrator Stephen Ehikian at an agency-wide meeting on Thursday – and the outraged employees’ response.

“‘My door is always open’ but we’ve been told we can’t go to the floor you work on?” one employee chided in the Google Meet chat logs for the event obtained by Wired.

Another employee, whose real name Wired chose not to include to protect their privacy, told others in the chat: “We don’t want an AI demo, we want answers to what is going on with [reductions in force]. That post stoked over 100 GSA staffers to add a “thumbs up” emoji in favor of it.

But despite their hidden protests, an AI demo is exactly what they received, according to the report.

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“During the meeting, Ehikian and other high-ranking members of the GSA team showed off GSAi, a chatbot tool built by employees at the Technology Transformation Services,” according to