In recent weeks, Musk’s team has worked to quickly reduce costs through the United States government, which has seen its Annual increase in deficit in the past three years. The staff management office, which acts as a HR department for the government and is stacked with musk loyalists, encouraged federal employees to resign If they cannot return to the office five days a week and engage in a culture of loyalty and excellence.
DOGE AI initiatives are competing for the group’s efforts to reduce the federal budget and accelerate existing processes. For example, DOGE members of the Ministry of Education would have used AI tools to analyze expenses and programs, the Washington Post reported Thursday. A spokesperson for the department says that the emphasis is placed on the search for profitability.
The GSAI Chatbot project of the General Services Administration could provide similar advantages, allowing workers, for example, to write memos more quickly. The agency had hoped to use existing software such as Google Gemini, but finally determined that it would not provide the level of data that DOGE desired, according to one of the people familiar with the project. Google’s spokesperson Jose Castañeda refused to comment.
It is not the only Doge AI ambition that has not been broadcast. Shedd described the deployment of “AI coding agents” as among the main priorities of the agency on Monday on Monday. These agents help engineers Generate, edit and automatically answer questions about the software code In the hope of increasing productivity and reducing errors. A tool in which the team examined, according to the documents seen by Wired, was Cursor, a coding assistant developed by Anysphere, a fast growing startup from San Francisco.
The main investors of Anysphere include Thrive Capital and Andreessen Horowitz– two of which have links with Trump. Joshua Kushner, Thrive Director Partner, Historically done Donations of political campaign to the Democrats, but he is the brother of Trump’s son -in -law, Jared Kushner. The co -founder of Andreessen Marc Andreessen said he advised Trump on technology and energy technology.
A different person familiar with the technology purchases of the General Services Administration indicates that the agency’s IT team had initially approved the use of the cursor, to remove it later for a more in -depth examination. Now Doge pushes to install Microsoft Github co -pilotThe best known coding assistant in the world, according to the other person familiar with the agency.
The cursor and general services administration did not respond to requests for comments. Andreessen Horowitz And Thrive refused to comment.
Federal regulations require even to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest in the choice of suppliers. And although there were no generalized concerns known regarding the security of the cursor, federal agencies are generally required by law To study the potential risks of cybersecurity before adopting new technologies.
The interest and use of the Federal Government of AI are not new. In October 2023, then President Biden ordered the General Services Administration To prioritize security opinions for several categories of AI tools, including chatbots and coding assistants. But at the end of his mandate, none had even successfully completed the agency’s preliminary examination processes, according to a former official who knew them. Consequently, no coding tool assisted by AI dedicated has received authorization Under FedrampA GSA program to centralize security examinations and facilitate the burden of individual agencies.
