According to the American television network Telemundothe government efficiency department team (Dogefor its acronym in English), headed by the South African businessman and investor Elon Muskit works on cost reduction in the United States government and in the control of the surveillance in the US policy.
“Anonymous sources claim that doge is implementing Artificial Intelligence (AI) To monitor communications between employees of federal agencies, “said the American media, suggesting that Musk and his team look for some hostile attitude towards the initiatives of the president of the United States, Donald Trump.
According to this source that anonymity requestedDoge is currently focused on monitoring the employees of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPAfor its acronym in English), so allegedly uses AI to be able to check messages on the platform Microsoft Teams and in other instant messaging applications.
In that context, the current EPA director, the American lawyer Lee M. Zeldin, He asked all his collaborators to act with a lot caution Regarding what they express, publish and carry out, given the possibility that Doge officials are looking for statements contrary to President Donald Trump Oa Elon Musk.
Artificial Intelligence in Doge
In March it was announced that workers in the government efficiency department actively use the application Signala free messaging and open source platform, with emphasis on privacy and security, which is used to send and receive messages from encrypted datawhose content ends up disappearing.
After the broad acceptance of Signal by department officials, Musk decided to implement Groka generative artificial intelligence chatbot based on large language models that was developed by the South African magnate in response to the emergence of Chatgpt, The most popular application of AI.
As stated by the American magazine Forbesspecialized in business and finance issues, the government efficiency department uses Grok “to optimize the government processes. ”However, the lawyer Kathleen Clark Consider that doge acts in a way illegalwith the permission of President Trump.
“If the workers of this controversial department use applications such as Signal or Grok and do not do backups of each message that is related to a federal file, they are committing a illegality Within the United States, “said Kathleen, one of the experts in ethics government that was consulted by Forbes.
On several occasions, Musk has affirmed that the Doge “actively avoids the usual flow of documents”, since, instead of generating official copies such as other departments, this team chooses to use an online text processor, which allows several people to edit simultaneously and the work is expedited.
Likewise, South African has indicated that AI could replace officials, so it plans to develop “the artificial intelligence system more dynamic of history ”, which is allegedly already in operation, because many wonder how Musk managed to identify so quickly the” inefficient employees. “
In addition, Doge also managed to detect “hundreds of Magic computers who sent money from nothing ”, as well as dozens of older people from 150 years In the United States that still receive benefits from Social Securitywhich is why various American media wonder if this new AI system is already active.
Elon Musk on People Over 150-Yyears-Old Social Review Security:
“I Think They’re Probablay Dead, Is My Gues, or They Should Be Vley Famous, One of The Two.”
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