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Homepage > News > Business > Last Week in AI: DOGE uses AI for gov’t; Amazon launches Alexa How DOGE is using AI to downsize the government Elon Musk’s DOGE is allegedly using artificial intelligence (AI) in its mission to reduce the size of the federal government. According to recent reports, Musk—who recently sent an email to federal employees asking them to list five things they accomplished that week—plans to feed those responses into a large language model (LLM) to determine whether their work is mission critical. The email request was utterly trivial, as the standard for passing the test was to type some words and press send! Yet so many failed even that inane test, urged on in some cases by their managers. Have you ever witnessed such INCOMPETENCE and CONTEMPT for how YOUR TAXES are… https://t.co/QjSmY4ezpg — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 24, 2025 Unsurprisingly, DOGE’s actions created controversy, and critics accused Musk and the DOGE team of using their email initiative to justify mass layoffs in the federal government. Musk, in response, clarified that this first email was more of a litmus test. He said any response, no matter how trivial, was enough to confirm that a living, breathing person was behind the keyboard. He emphasized that the real purpose of the email was to determine whether the individual receiving a government salary was competent enough to respond. According to Musk, the real red flag is if an employee fails to respond altogether. U.S. President Donald Trump was quick to voice his support for Musk’s initiative, calling it “great” and emphasizing the need for outside intervention in what he described as a bloated and inefficient government. While AI can be a tool in DOGE’s mission, it’s questionable whether it should be the only tool used to determine whether…

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