While Elon Musk crosses the federal government, those close to the billionaire are advertising a particular tool in their arsenal: artificial intelligence.
Musk, who leads a series of technological companies, including Spacex, Tesla, X and Xai, was commissioned by the Trump administration with a drastically federal expenditure by reducing through the so -called Department of Government or Doge’s efficiency. In the first two weeks of the administration, the group overturned the federal agencies and invited workers to resign to reduce costs.
The Musk allies who have taken roles within government agencies are evaluating how to exploit the IA to identify budget cuts and detect waste and abuse, according to people who are familiar with internal conversations, who spoke on condition of anonymity For fear of retaliation.
Monday, Thomas Shedd, an ex -engineer Tesla who was appointed by the new administration to direct technological efforts to the administration of general services, told some staff members that the IA would have been a fundamental part of their reduction work of costs, according to four people with knowledge of the conversation. In the agency, some staff members have been informed that will have to cut 50 percent of his budget.
The agency hosts the technological transformation services, a group of about 700 technologists who see Mr. Musk saw as a key resource of engineering talent. Doge-a members to whom Shedd has defined internal messages such as his “consultants”-have spent the last two weeks to interview the workers, asking them to describe their technical results and identify colleagues showing “exceptional” talents.
Meeting the members of TTS on Monday, Shedd said he hopes to group all government contracts in a central database and to use artificial intelligence to evaluate them for potential layoffs and reductions in the budget, the people who are familiar with the discussion. He observed that the administrator of the GSA acting, a trump in charge and the Salesforce manager named Stephen Ehikian, is maintaining a document of artificial intelligence strategy.
Artificial intelligence could also be used as a tool to detect fraud and waste, added Shedd.
Neither GSA nor Mr. Shedd responded to requests for comment.
While both administrations of Trump and Biden have reported the interest in increasing federal expenses on the use of artificial intelligence technologies throughout the government, it is not clear whether emerging technology could be used to identify excessive expenditure or fraud as They imagine Musk’s allies. In public discussions, Musk has, with a few tests, has interpreted the government of the United States rampant with billions of dollars in fraud which can be removed with hard work and technological know-how.
President Trump defended the vast scope of Mr. Musk and the tactics he used to shake the federal bureaucracy.
“He has a team of great people and we are trying to reduce the government and can probably reduce him and anyone else, if not better,” Trump told journalists on Monday.
Mr. Musk was bullish in the construction of artificial intelligence systems in his companies, while simultaneously by warning that the powerful technology could destroy humanity if it does not control it. Musk Guida XAI, an artificial intelligence company that provides a chatbot and other services to its social media company, X, and also uses to to feed the assistance systems for drivers in Tesla.
He also sued Openi, his main competitor, claiming that the company, which he co-founded, violated his founding contract by putting commercial interests in front of the public good. Mr. Musk left Openai in 2018 after controversies with other co-founders. (The New York Times sued Openii and Microsoft, claiming the violation of the copyright of news related to artificial intelligence systems. The two companies denied the statements of the cause.)
The leaders of the largest artificial intelligence companies of the nation – including Google, Meta, Openi and Amazon – donated and participated in the inauguration of Mr. Trump last month while trying to bend the favor of a new administration that modeled the Federal policy around development technology.
Trump also appointed David Sacks, a venture capitalist, donor and ally to Mr. Musk, as “Ai della Casa White and Czar Cryptographer” and has canceled the order of the Biden Administration to create artificial intelligence safeguards. Last month, the president also announced a new $ 100 billion artificial intelligence initiative between Openai, Oracle and SoftBank to create computer infrastructures in the United States to feed artificial intelligence.
In his new role of the government, Musk insisted that there are wide waste and fraud that have been unnoticed, echoing the statements he made when he cut the costs in companies like Twitter. In a Livestream audio conversation that started after midnight on Monday in Washington, Musk said That expensive expenditure, including “false people” who collect social security and medicating payments, as well as “foreign fraud rings”, were taking $ 100 billion to $ 200 billion a year of money from US taxpayers.
“A trillion of dollars can only be spared by facing waste, fraud and abuse,” he said without saying how it reached that number.
Aric Toler Contributed relationships.