As Elon Musk sweeps the federal government, those close to the billionaire is a specific tool in their arsenal: artificial intelligence.
Mr Musk, who drives a number of technology companies, including SpaceX, Tesla, X and XAI, has been tasked with Trump’s administration with the drastic reduction of federal spending through the so -called government efficiency or dog. In the first two weeks of the administration, the team has increased federal organizations and urged workers to resign to reduce costs.
Musk allies who have taken over roles within government services evaluate how to evaluate AI to detect budget cuts and detect waste and abuse, according to people who are familiar with internal conversations, who talked about the condition anonymity from fear of retaliation.
On Monday, Thomas Shedd, a former Tesla engineer, who was appointed by the new administration for the technology of the General Service, told some employees that AI would be a key part of the cost of reducing costs, according to four people with knowledge of the conversation. At the agency, some employees have been informed that they are expected to reduce 50 % of its budget.
The organization houses technology transformation services, a group of about 700 technologists that Mr. Musk’s dog considers as a key resource of engineering talent. Doge members-with whom Mr Sedd referred to internal messages as “advisers”-have spent the last two weeks interviewed by workers, asking them to describe their technical achievements and identify colleagues presenting “excellent” talent .
Meeting with TTS members on Monday, Mr SHEDD said he hoped to gather all government contracts in a central database and use artificial intelligence to evaluate them for possible layoffs and budget reductions, according to people who are familiar with the conversation. He noted that the active GSA administrator, a Trump appointed and Salesforce Executive named Stephen Ehikian, maintains an AI strategy document.
The AI ​​could also be used as a tool for detecting fraud and waste, Mr Sheedd added.
Neither GSA nor Mr Shedd responded to commentary requests.
While Trump and Biden administrations have marked interest in increasing federal spending on the use of AI technologies throughout the government, it is not clear whether emerging technology could be used to identify overpower or fraud such Allies of Mr. Musk. In public discussions, Mr Musk, with little evidence, depicted the US government as ruthless with billions of dollars in fraud that could be ruled out with hard work and technological know -how.
President Trump has defended Mr Musk’s enormous range and the tactic he has used to move federal bureaucracy.
“It has a group of very talented people and we are trying to shrink the government and probably shrink it as well as anyone else, if not better,” Mr Trump told reporters on Monday.
Mr Musk has been inflated for building AI systems in his companies, while warning that strong technology could destroy humanity if it does not control it. Mr Musk drives XAI, an artificial intelligence company providing a chatbot and other services to the Social Media Society, X, and also uses AI to supply driver help systems to Tesla.
He has also sued Openai, his main competitor, arguing that the company, which he founded, violated its founding contract by putting commercial interests in the face of public good. Mr Musk left Openai in 2018 after differences with other co -founders. (The New York Times has sued Openai and Microsoft, supporting copyright violations of the AI ​​-related news content.
The leaders of the largest AI companies of the Nation – including Google, Meta, Openai and Amazon – were donated and watched the inauguration of Mr Trump last month as they tried to make a new administration that forms the federal policy around from developing technology.
Mr Trump also appointed David Sacks, a business capital, a donor and ally to Mr Musk, as “White House AI and Crypto Czar” and cancels Biden’s administration order to create AI safeguards. Last month, the president also announced a new AI initiative of $ 100 billion between Openai, Oracle and Softbank to create computing infrastructure in the United States for the power of artificial intelligence.
In his new government role, Mr Musk insisted that there were plenty of waste and fraud found, reflecting claims he made when he reduced the cost of companies such as Twitter. In a Livestream audio conversation that started after midnight on Monday in Washington, Mr Musk claimed These wasteful costs, including “false people” who collect social security and Medicare payments, as well as “foreign fraud rings”, took $ 100 billion in $ 200 billion a year of US taxpayers’ money.
“A trillion dollars can only be saved by dealing with waste, fraud and abuse,” he said without saying how he got to that number.
Abic toler They contributed reports.
