Musk colleagues discussed deploying AI to find budget savings

As the Elon Musk sweeps through the federal government, people close to the billionaire are avoiding a special tool in their arsenal: artificial intelligence.

Mr. Musk, who leads a wife of technology companies including SpaceX, Tesla, X and XAI, has been tasked by the Trump administration to significantly reduce the federal expenses through the so -called department of government efficiency, or Dogi. In the first two weeks of administration, the group has provoked federal agencies and urged workers to resign to reduce costs.

According to people familiar with internal conversation, Musk collaborators who play roles inside government agencies, are evaluating the exploitation of AI to detect the budget and misuse, who are not printing the name for fear of vengeance Talked on

On Monday, Thomas Shed, a former Tesla Engineer Thomas Shed, who was appointed by the new administration for major technology efforts in general service administration, told some employees that AI would be an important part of their cost-cut work, According to four people with knowledge. In the agency, some employees have been informed that they will be expected to cut 50 percent of its budget.

The agency has technology change services, a group of about 700 technologists who have been seen by Mr. Musk’s Dogge as a major resource of engineering talent. Member of Dogge-Mr. Shed has referred to the internal messages as his “advisors”-the last two weeks have interviewed the workers who describe them their technical achievements and demonstrate “extraordinary” talent Asking to identify colleagues.

Meeting with TTS members on Monday, Mr. Shed said that he hoped to use artificial intelligence to pool all government contracts in a central database and to assess them for potential excesses and budget cuts, familiar with the discussion people said. He said that acting GSA administrator, an AI’s executive of a trump appointment and salesforce, named Stephen Ehikian, is maintaining an AI strategy document.

AI can also be used as a tool for fraud and waste detection, said Mr. Shed.

Neither GSA nor Mr. Shed responded to the requests of comments.

While both Trump and the Biden administration have indicated interest in increasing federal expenses on the use of AI technologies across the government, it is not clear that the use of emerging technology is not clear to identify overseas or fraud as allies of Mr. Musk Can be done. In public discussions, Mr. Musk portrayed the US government extensively in fraud with very few evidence, which could be encouraged with hard work and technical information.

President Trump has defended the strategy used to shake the huge reach of Mr. Musk and the federal bureaucracy.

Mr. Trump told reporters on Monday, “They have got a team of very talented people, and we are trying to shrink the government, and they may probably shrink it with someone else.”

Mr. Musk is fast on the construction of AI systems in its companies, as well as warning that powerful technology can destroy humanity if it does not control it. Mr. Musk leads an Artificial Intelligence Company XAI, which provides a chatbot and other services to its social media company, X, and also using AI for the power driver assistance system in Tesla.

He has also filed a lawsuit against his main contestant OpenaiI, claiming that the firm, whom he co-established, violated his founding contract by extending his founding contract well to the public. Mr. Musk left Openai after controversies with other co-founders in 2018. (New York Times sued Openai and Microsoft, claiming copyright violation of news material related to AI system. Both companies denied the claims of the suit.)

Leaders of the country’s largest AI companies – Google, Meta, Openai and Amazon – participated in the inauguration of Mr. Trump last month as they attended the favor with a new administration shaping federal policy around developing technology. Have demanded to do it.

Mr. Trump also appointed David Sachs, an enterprise capitalist, donor and colleague as “White House AI and Crypto Caesar” and canceled the Biden administration order to create AI security measures. Last month, the President announced a new $ 100 billion AI initiative between OpenA, Oracle and Softbank to create a computing infrastructure in the United States, to bring artificial intelligence to power.

In the role of his new government, Mr. Musk has insisted that there is enough waste and fraud which have become unwanted, they echoed claims when they cut the cost in companies such as Twitter. In a livestream audio conversation started after midnight of Monday in Washington, Mr. Musk claimed Along with social security and medicare payments -the useless expenses including “fake people” to collect “foreign fraud rings”, $ 200 billion to $ 200 billion per year $ 200 billion per year $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ Ranging from 200 billion to $ 200 billion.

He said, “A trillion dollar can be saved by addressing only waste, fraud and misuse,” he said how he reached that number.

Arc toolor Contribution reporting.