Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is attempting to use AI to find where US regulatory agencies are stretching their remit, and where their rules could be rewritten to allow for more private-sector input, according to Wired.
DOGE is said to have tasked a college student with the job of using AI to comb through the regulations of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to judge where it is overstepping its bounds, in a move that could be described as both efficient and dangerous if the model spits out interpretations that do not in fact exist.
The second application sees DOGE attempt to replace tens of thousands of government employees with AI systems that are not yet ready for such responsibility, and could never be given the complex nature of government work.
These revelations reveal not only the misdeeds of DOGE, but also serve to highlight the potential power - for good and evil - of AI systems that can scan and synthesise large documents faster than humans.
