While Elon Musk wipes through the federal government, the billionaires are promoted to a specific tool in their arsenal: artificial intelligence.
Mr. Musk, who leads a group of technology companies, including Spacex, Tesla, X and Xai, was assigned by the Trump administration to reduce federal spending significantly through the so -called government efficiency, or Doug. In the first two weeks of the administration, the group raised federal agencies and urged workers to resign to reduce costs.
Musk allies who have taken roles within government agencies assess how artificial intelligence harnesses budget cuts, waste detection and ill -treatment, according to persons familiar with internal conversations, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of revenge.
On Monday, Thomas Shaid, the former engineer of Tesla, who was appointed by the new administration of the head of technology efforts in the Public Services Department, told some employees that artificial intelligence was from the conversation. At the agency, some employees were informed that they are expected to reduce 50 percent of their budget.
The agency includes technology conversion services, a group of 700 technicians unprecedented that Mr. Musk Doge is a major source of engineering talent. The members of Doug-Al-Sayed Shadd in the internal messages died in the name of his “advisers”-the past two weeks in the workers’ interview, and asked them to describe their technical achievements and identify co-workers who offer “exceptional” talents.
People familiar with the discussion said that the meeting with TTS members on Monday, SHEDD said he hoped to collect all government contracts in a central database and use artificial intelligence to assess them for possible repetition and reduce budget. He pointed out that the Acting GSA official, an executive director of Trump and Salesforce named Stephen Ikian, maintains an Amnesty International’s strategy document.
Mr. SHEDD added that artificial intelligence can also be used as a tool to detect fraud and waste.
Neither GSA nor Mr. SEDD did not respond to suspension requests.
While Trump and Biden departments referred to an interest in increasing federal spending on the use of artificial intelligence technologies throughout the government, it is unclear whether emerging technology can be used to determine excess or fraud spending as Mr. Musk’s allies imagine. In public discussions, Mr. Musk, with a little evidence, photographed the United States government as billions of dollars in fraud that could be eradicated with hard work and technological knowledge.
President Trump defended the tremendous access of Mr. Musk and the tactics he used to shake the federal bureaucracy.
“He has a team of very talented people, we are trying to reduce the government, and he may be able to reduce it as well as anyone else, if not better,” Mr. Trump told reporters on Monday.
Mr. Musk was optimistic about building artificial intelligence systems in his companies, while he warned at the same time that strong technology can destroy humanity If he does not control it. Mr. Musk Xai, an artificial intelligence company that provides Chatbot and other services to its social media company, is led by X, and also uses the driver’s aid systems in Tesla.
He also has A lawsuit against OpenaiHis main rival, claiming that the company, which he participated in establishing, violated its founding contract by setting commercial interests before the public good. Mr. Musk Openai left in 2018 after disputes with other founders. (New York Times A lawsuit against Openai And Microsoft, which claims to violate copyright for news content related to artificial intelligence systems. The two companies denied the claims of the case.)
The leaders of the largest artificial intelligence companies in the country – including Google, Meta, Openai and Amazon – attended the inauguration of Mr. Trump last month as they sought a preference with a new administration to form a federal policy on developing technology.
Mr. Trump also Ain David bagsProject capital, donor and ally for Mr. Musk, as “AI White House and Crypto CZAR”, and canceled Biden administration order To create artificial intelligence guarantees. Last month, the president also announced A new initiative worth $ 100 billion in artificial intelligence Between Openai, Oracle and SoftBank to create an infrastructure for computing in the United States of the AI.
In his new governmental role, Mr. Musk insisted on the presence of unveiled waste and fraud, repeating the allegations he made when it reduced costs in companies such as Twitter. In an audio conversation that started after midnight on Monday in Washington, Mr. Musk claimed This wasted spending, including “fake persons”, was raising social security and medical care payments, as well as “foreign fraud”, obtaining $ 100 billion to $ 200 billion annually from US taxpayer money.
He said without saying how he reached this number: “Only a trillion dollars can be saved by treating waste, fraud and abuse,” he said without saying how this number reached.
ARIC TOLER The reports contributed.
