Exclusive: Musk's DOGE using AI to snoop on U.S. federal workers, sources say

[Wicked Blue]

Source: Reuters

Trump administration officials have told some U.S. government employees that Elon Musk's DOGE team of technologists is using artificial intelligence to surveil at least one federal agency’s communications for hostility 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 surveillance would mark an extraordinary use of technology to identify expressions of perceived disloyalty in a workforce already upended by widespread firings and severe cost cutting.

The DOGE 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 be set to disappear 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 could not establish exactly how Grok was being used.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/musks-doge-using-ai-snoop-us-federal-workers-sources-say-2025-04-08/

[pimpbot]

1. The details are in the last part of that article

They are feeding his stupid AI service all the information our Government has produced. Basically free training for it, and data his competitors probably dont have easy access to. Think about all the health records, government reports, research, etc.

All for free, so he can make a buck.

[Wicked Blue]

2. Excellent point

I suspect they are also checking to find and fire government employees who pose potential threats to the new fascist regime

[Irish_Dem]

3. We are becoming more like China and North Korea.

[Torchlight]

4. Appointing party loyalists to positions

replacing experienced professionals who actually know how to do the job.

I'm starting to wonder why they won't just admit it—followed up with shallow slogans aimed at their base, people who require their own opinions spoon-fed to them by the media in advance.

[yellow dahlia]

5. Thank you for sharing.

And yikes! It is all so blatantly WRONG!