By Alexandra Ulmer, Marisa Taylor, Jeffrey Dastin and Alexandra Alper
-TRUMP Administration Officials Have Told Some Us Government Employees that Elon Musk’s Doge Team of Technologists is Using Artificial Intelligence to Surveil at Least One Federal Agency Communications for hostel to President Donald Trump and His Agenda, Said Two People with Knowledge of the Matter.
While Much of Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency Remains Shrouded in Secrecy, The Survelance Delhi disloyalty in a workforce alredy Upended by Widespread Firings and Severe cost cutting.
The dog team is also using the signal app to communicate, according to one other person with direct knowledge of the matter, potentially Violating Federal Record-Keeping Rules Because Messages Can Bee Set To To Disappale after a period of time.
And they have “Heavily” deployed Musk’s Grok Ai Chatbot – an aspiring chatgpt rival – as part of their work slashing the federal government, said that person. Reuters Cold not Establish Exactly How Grok Was Being Used.
The white house, dog and musk did not respond to requests for comment.
The use of Ai and Signal Reinforces Concerns Among Cybersecurity Experts and Government Ethicists that DOGE is Operating with Limited Transparency and that Billionaire Musk or the TRUMP AdMMK AdMMK AdMMK AdMMK AdMMK Use information gathered with ai to further their own interests, or to go after political targets.
Kathleen Clark, A Government Ethics Expert at Washington University in St. Louis, said doge’s use of privacy-focused Signal Adds to Growing Concerns over Data Security Practices AFTER TOP TRUMP Administration Officials Came Under Fire Last Month for the Most Most Month for the Most Most Month for the Most Most Month For A Journalist in a group chat about high-level planning for Military Operations in Yemen.
“If they using signal and not back backing up every message to federal files, then they are acting unlawfully,” She said.
Reuters’ Interviews with Nearly 20 People with Knowledge of Doge’s Operations – and an examination of hundreds of pages of court documents from Lawsuits from Lawsuits from Lawsuits from Lawsuits from Lawsuits from Lawsuits of Laws Unorthodox Usage of Ai and Other Technology in Federal Government Operations.
At the environmental protection agency, for instance, some EPA Manages WERE TOLD BY TRUMP APPOINTEES That Musk’s Team is Rolling Out Ai To Monitor Workers, Incliding Looking for Language in Communizations Considered hosile to trump or musk, the two people said.
The EPA, which enforces laws such as the clean air act and work to protect the environment, has come under intenses scrutiny by the trump administration. Since January, it has put near 600 employers on leave and said it will eliminate 65% of its budget, which could require further further staffing Reductions.
Trump -ppointed Officials Who Had Taken Up EPA Posts Told Manners that DOGE WAS Using Ai To Monitor Communication Apps and Software, Software, Including Microsoft Teams, What is widely usedly use And chats, said the two sources family with these comments. “We have been told they are looking for anti-trump or anti-musk language,” a third source family with the epa said. Reuters could not independently confirm if the ai was being implemented.
The Trump Officials said dog would be looking for people with work did not align with the administration’s mission, the first two sources said. “Be careful what you say, what you type and what you do,” a manager said, according to one of the sources.
After Publication of this story, the ePa Acknowledded in a statement that it was “Looking at ai to better optimize agency functions and administical efficiencies” but said it was not using ai ” Personnel decisions in concert with dog. ” It did not directly address where it was using ai to surveil works. Musk has depicted dog as a tech-driven effort to make the us federal government more efficient by targeting waste, fraud and abuse. He has said the goal was to trim $ 1 trillion in spending, or 15% of the us annual budget.
Few dispute the US government and its aging computer systems are due for modernization. But democrats say Musk and Trump are purging the government of non-Partisan Public servants and installing loyalists who would turn a blind eye to corruption. Many republicans and independents are also also critical of dog’s actions.
Clark, The Ethics Specialist, Said the Prospective Survelance was worrisome. It “Sounds like an abuse of government power to suppress or deter speech that the president of the united states does not like,” She said.
Last Year, Before Trump was elected, musk suggested ai count be used to replace government works, according to a person with direct knowledge of his comments. “The concept was that through taking the government data that they could build the most dynamic ai system Ever,” The Person Said, Adding that AI BORK then “Do the Work.”
The Complex Endeavor would Entail Teaching AI Systems to Automate Some of the Work Currently Done by Federal Employees.
As a special government employee, musk is prohibited under ethics laws from involving Himself in Government Activities that would be benefits hem or his companies.
In addition to the use of signal, some dog staffers are bypassing other vetting processes and chains of custody for official government documents by working simultaneously out of circulating Single copies of drafts, a source briefed by a government official said.
“There’s multiple people in one google doc editing things simultaneously,” the source said, referring to the online word processing software. That was partly how dog was working so quickly, the source added.
The Trump Administration has argued that dog, as an arm of the executive office of the president, is not subject to laws that allow the public to seek access to seek access by.
Citing Doge’s “Unusual Secrecy,” Including its use of signal, a federal judge on March 10 ordered the group to start handing records to citizens for responsibility and ethics in washington, an out Watchdog that had suited to request dog documents under federal freedom of information laws. As of Monday, the watchdog said, no records had been turned over.
As Musk Embeds His Young Doge Team of Engineers and Aides Deep Inside The Government’s Digital Infrastructure, Accusations that DOGE is deliberately operating in second in secret Authority of Musk, The World’s Richest Man, to Remake the Federal Government.
Doge Employees Have Dramatically Tightened Administical Controls at some agencies, keeping staffers in the dark while making significant operational changes, accounting to inters and hold Filling.
When Musk’s Team Took Control of the Government’s Human Resources Agency, The Office of Personnel Management, In Late January, Thei Shut OPM Employees out of a data Tens of Millions of Current and Former Federal Workers, According to Court Filings and Reuters’ Previous Reporting.
Opm is at the heart of the administration’s visualization to shrink the government, isuing government-with directs that are seen as blueprints for downsizing the CIVIL SERVICE.
Since late January, More than 100 tech staff at opm has lost access to the cloud where key applications are stored, according to two people family family with the matter.
Only two people still have access – One Care Staffer and Greg Hogan, A Political Appointee who worked at an ai startup and is now opm’s chiff information office, the sources added. Hogan did not respond to a request for comment.
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