Washington:
The Trump administration officials have told some American government employees that the team of Elon Musk’s Dogi (Government’s Efficiency Department) has used artificial intelligence to survey the communication of at least one federal agency for indications of enmity towards President Donald Trump and his agenda, with two people said with knowledge of the case.
While most part of Musk’s government’s efficiency department is immersed in confidentiality, surveillance has already identified an extraordinary use of technology to identify manifestations of alleged dissatisfaction in a workforce already widely firing and serious cost-cutting.
The DOGE team is also using the signal app to communicate, according to another person with direct knowledge of the case, is a potentially federal records violating rules because messages can be set to disappear after a period of time. And they have “heavy” mask’s Groke AI Chatbot – an aspirational chatgate rival – deployed the federal government as part of his work, said that person. Reuters could not establish how the grouke was being used.
The White House, Dogi and Musk did not respond to the recommendations of the comment.
The use of AI and signals confirms concerns between cyber security experts and government moralists that Dogi are working with limited transparency and billionaire Kasturi or Trump administration can use the information collected with AI to carry forward their own interests, or to go after political goals.
Cathleen Clarke, an expert at government morality at the University of Washington at St. Louis, said that the use of Dogi’s privacy-centered signal adds growing concerns over data security practices, when the Trump Trump Administration officials set fire to the last month to include a journalist for a group chat about a high level plan for military operations in Yemen last month.
“If they are using signals and not supporting every message for federal files, they are working illegally,” he said.
Reuters interviews with around 20 people with knowledge of the operation of the dogge – and the cases challenging Dogi’s access to Dogy, an examination of hundreds of pages of court documents – highlights its unconventional use of AI and other technology in the operation of the federal government.
For example, in the Environmental Protection Agency, some EPA managers were told by Trump appointments that Musk’s team was rolling out AI to monitor the workers, which included the language in hostile communication for Trump or Kasturi, both people said.
The EPA, which enforces laws such as the Clean Air Act and works to protect the environment, has come under intensive investigation by the Trump administration. Since January, it has placed about 600 employees on leave and said it will eliminate 65% of its budget, which may require further staffing cuts.
Officials appointed by Trump, who took EPA posts, told the managers that Dogge AI was being used to monitor the communication application and software, including Microsoft teams, which are widely used for virtual calls and chats, two sources familiar with these comments said. A third source familiar with the EPA said, “We are told that they are looking for anti-trump or anti-muscular language.” If AI was being implemented, the Reuters could not confirm independently.
Trump officials said that Dogge would search for those whose work did not align with the mission of the administration, the first two sources said. A manager said, “Be careful what you say, what you type and what you do.”
EPA did not respond to the remarks request.
Musk has depicted the dog as a technical-powered attempt to make the US federal government more efficient by targeting waste, fraud and abuse. He has said that the target was to trim $ 1 trillion, or 15% of the US annual budget at the target spending.
Some controversies are due to modernization of the US government and its aging computer systems. But Democrats say that Kasturi and Trump are purifying the government of non-Pakistani public servants and establishing loyalists who will blindly blindly blindly blindly. Many Republican and independent are also important for the functions of Dogi.
Ethics expert Clarke said the future monitoring was worrisome. This “seems like misuse of government power to suppress or stop the speech that does not like the President of the United States,” he said.
Last year, before Trump was elected, Musk suggested that AI could be used to replace government employees, according to a person according to the direct knowledge of his comments. “The concept was that through taking government data that they could build the most dynamic AI system so far,” The person said, AI can then “work”.
Complex efforts will enter the AI system to automate some of the current functions done by federal employees.
As a special government employee, Musk is prevented from involving himself in government activities under morality laws that will benefit them or their companies.
Transparency question
In addition to the use of the signal, some dog employees are bypassing the chains of custody for other veating procedures and official government documents, which are working together with Google Docs instead of transmitting single copies of the draft, a government official said.
Referring to the online Word processing software, “Many people in a Google doctor edit the editing things together.” The source said that how would you partially be working so quickly.
The Trump administration has argued that the President’s Executive Office Down as one hand, not subject to laws that allow the public to access the records produced by government agencies.
On March 10, a federal judge, citing the “unusual privacy” of Dogi with his use of the signal, ordered the group to hand over a record to citizens for responsibility and morality in Washington, a moral watcadog that sued the intended freedom of information laws. Till Monday, Watchdog said, no records were made.
As Musk has asked his young Dogi team to work deeply inside the digital infrastructure of the engineers and the government, it is alleged that Dogi is deliberately working in secrecy, challenging the rights of musk in court cases, to remake the world’s richest man, federal government.
According to the interview and court filing, Dogi employees have tightened administrative controls on some agencies in some agencies, which keep the employees in darkness while making significant operations.
When in late January, Musk’s team controlled the government’s Human Resource Agency, Personnel Management Office, they exclude OPM employees from a database, with millions of current and former federal workers’ sensitive personal information, according to the court filing and previous reporting of the Reuters.
The OPM is at the center of the administration’s vision to shrink the government, issues the government-wide instructions which is seen as a blueprint to reduce the civil service.
From the end of January, more than 100 tech staff in OPM have lost access to the cloud, where according to two people familiar with the case, major applications are collected.
Sources said only two people still have access to only two people – a career employee and Greg Hogan, a political appointment, who works in AI startup and now the OPM’s Chief Information Officer. Hogan did not respond to the remarks request.
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