The State Performance Department (Doge), headed by Elon Musk, uses artificial intelligence to track communication in at least one federal agency, looking for manifestations of hostility towards the President of the United States Donald Trump, “Reuters said.
The cell in which AI was supposedly used to track internal communication is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The managers there were informed by people imposed by the White House that team Muska implements artificial intelligence to monitor employeesincluding searching for a language considered hostile to Trump or Musk.
“They are looking for an anti -trumpy language”
According to Reuters's informants, he uses artificial intelligence in EPA to monitor applications and communication software, including Microsoft Teams, which is widely used for virtual connections and chats. – We were told that they were looking for an anti -troops or anti -workshop language – one of the people working there. – You have to be careful about what you are saying, what is being written and what is being done – added one of the managers working at the agency.
According to Reuters, in the official announcement, EPA management stated that “it considers the use of AI in order to optimize the agency function and greater administrative performance, but does not use it because it makes personal decisions together with the dog.” It was not directly referred to that AI is used to monitor employees.
Reuters writes that some members of the government have already been informed about the problem USA by Trump administration officials. They alert that supervision with the help of AI would mean the disturbing use of technology to identify the manifestations of disloyalty to the US president.
Reuters sources report that the Doge team also uses the Signal application for communication, which would violate the federal data storage regulations, because the messages in this application can be set so that they disappear after some time.
Musk, as the source reveals, was also implemented by Chatbota Grok, a competitive bot towards chatgpt, as part of his work on cuts in the federal government.
“Abuse of power” by dog
Reuters points out that the use of AI and the Signal application strengthens the concerns of experts for cybersecurity and ethics that Doge acts with limited transparency and that Musk or Trump administration can use information collected using AI to pursue their own interests or to achieve political goals.
– If they use Signala and do not back up every message in federal files, they act unlawfully – said Kathleen Clark, an expert on government ethics at the Washington University at St. Louis.
She emphasized that the potential supervision using AI is disturbing. – it looks like the abuse of government power in order to suppress or discourage the statements that President of the United States They don't like each other – she said.
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