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OPM revamps online pay tables, spearheads AI adoption across federal workforce

Nextgov/FCW · · US Federal · AI Governance

The Office of Personnel Management is updating its online pay tables and positioning itself as a driver of AI adoption across the federal workforce, with its CIO framing both moves as part of a push to make federal operations more technology-centered.

Why this matters: OPM manages personnel data for millions of federal workers and retirees. When it pivots to AI, that is not just an IT upgrade. It is a shift in how the government tracks, evaluates, and makes decisions about its own employees. Workers rarely get a say in those tools. They also rarely know what data those tools use or how much weight they carry. The real thing to watch is not the pay table redesign. It is what AI adoption inside OPM eventually touches and who is accountable when it gets someone's record or status wrong.

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