How the Uneducated Fools Implement Policy: A.I.

Elon Musk’s DOGE team is feeding sensitive federal data into AI via Microsoft’s cloud to target spending cuts

Musk’s representatives from the Department of Government Efficiency have fed data from across the Education Department — including personally identifiable information for people who manage grants and sensitive internal financial data — into artificial intelligence software to probe the agency’s programs and spending, according to two people with knowledge of the actions. This use of AI, which has not previously been reported, shows how Musk’s group, which includes former employees from his tech empire, is tapping the favorite tool of Silicon Valley as part of its mission to drastically slash the size and functions of the federal government.

From Hannah Natanson, Gerrit De Vynck, Elizabeth Dwoskin and Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, Elon Musk’s DOGE is feeding sensitive federal data into AI to target cuts, The Washington Post, Updated
February 6, 2025 at 1:13 p.m. EST today at 1:13 p.m. EST.

It comes by feeding narrow-thinking and otherwise bad policy into the artifact intelligence system:

The AI probe includes data with personally identifiable information for people who manage grants, as well as sensitive internal financial data, the two people said. They described DOGE activities at the Education Department on the condition of anonymity due to fear of retaliation.

The DOGE team is using AI software accessed through Microsoft’s cloud computing service Azure to pore over every dollar of money the department disburses, from contracts to grants to work trip expenses, one of the people said. Lower-level department staffers were directed by agency leadership to let Musk’s teams access the sensitive financial data, the person said.

What is missed in the cognition is the conservative-liberal-radical, spiral-counter, happening (link will added this afternoon)

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Neville Buch (Pronounced Book) Ph.D. is a certified member of the Professional Historians Association (Queensland). Since 2010 he has operated a sole trade business in history consultancy. He was a Q ANZAC 100 Fellow 2014-2015 at the State Library of Queensland. Dr Buch was the PHA (Qld) e-Bulletin, the monthly state association’s electronic publication, and was a member of its Management Committee. He is the Managing Director of the Brisbane Southside History Network.

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