When Elon Musk wiped out the Federal Government, people close to the billionaire advertise artificial intelligence, a specific tool in the weapon.
Musk, who leads a number of technologies, including SpaceX, Tesla, X, and XAI, has led to the Trump administration to significantly reduce the efficiency of the government and the federal expenditure through the so -called government. In the first two weeks of the administration, the group had overturned the federal government and urged workers to resign to reduce costs.
The Musk Allies, which played a role in government agencies, played a role in government agencies, according to those who are familiar with internal conversations, which are on the condition of anonymity due to the fear of retaliation.
Former Tesla engineer Thomas Shed, a former Tesla engineer appointed a new administration to appoint the technical effort of the General Service Bureau on Monday, told some staff that AI became an important part of cost reduction work. 。 Of conversation. Agents have been notified that some staff are expected to reduce their budget by 50 %.
Agency contains a technology transformation service, a group of about 700 technicians, which is regarded as an important resource for engineering talent. DOGE members, which Shedd calls his “advisor” in an internal message, interviews workers for the past two weeks, explains technical results, and identifies colleagues with “exceptional” talent. I asked for it.
When I met a TTS member on Monday, Shed wanted to pool all government contracts to the central database and use artificial intelligence to evaluate potential redundancy and budget reduction. He noted that the acting GSA administrator, an appointment of Trump, Stephen Ehikian and an executive of salesforce, is maintaining AI strategic documents.
AI can also be used as a tool for detecting fraud and waste, and shedd added.
Neither GSA nor Shedd responded to the comment request.
Both the Trump administration and the Biden administration are interested in the increase in federal spending on the use of AI technology throughout the government, but as Mr. Musk's allies imagine, excessive expenditures or frauds using new technologies. It is unknown whether it can be identified. In a public discussion, Mr. Musk has little evidence, but describes that the U.S. government has extended its RAMP with a billions of dollar fraud, and it can be cut with effort and technical know -how. I am.
President Trump defended the vast reach of Musk and the tactics he used to shake the federal bureaucracy.
“He has a very talented team. We are trying to shrink the government. He is probably like others,” said Trump. He told the reporters on Monday.
Musk warns that he is bullish by building AI systems in his company, and at the same time, if a powerful technology does not control it, it can destroy humanity. MUSK has a chatbot and other services to social media companies X, leading XAI, an artificial intelligence company that uses AI for Tesla's power driver support systems.
He also claimed that his jointly established company had violated the establishment contract by moving ahead of public interests, and appealed for his major competitors Openai. Musk left Openai in 2018 after a dispute with other co -founders. (NEW YORK TIMES complains of Openai and Microsoft, claiming to violate the copyright of news content related to the AI system. The two companies have denied the lawsuit.)
The leader of the largest AI company in Japan, such as Google, Meta, Openai, and Amazon, donated and attended last month to Trump's inauguration ceremony.
Mr. Trump has also been appointed venture capitalist, donor, and his ally Musk as “White House AI and Crypto Czar” to cancel the order of the Biden administration to create AI protection measures. Last month, the president announced a new $ 100 billion AI initiative between Openai, Oracle, and SoftBank, and promoted artificial intelligence to create computing infrastructure in the United States.
In his new government, Musk claims that there is sufficient waste and fraud, reflecting the claims he made when costing on Twitter, such as Twitter. Mr. Musk claimed in a live stream audio conversation that began in Monday in Washington after midnight. Unnecessary expenditures, such as “fake people” and “foreign scams”, which collected social security and med care payments, received money from $ 100 billion to $ 200 billion per year.
“By dealing with wasting, fraud, and abuse, you can save $ 1 trillion,” he said without saying the number.
ARIC TOLER has contributed to the report.
