Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Working on a Custom Chatbot Called GSAi
Over the past few weeks, the Musk team has been working to quickly reduce US government costs, which over the past three years has increased its annual deficit. The personnel management department, which acts as a department of personnel for the government and contains Loyalists Musk, encourages federal employees to resign if they cannot return to the office five days a week and devote themselves to the culture of loyalty and superiority.
The initiatives of the DOGE by AI are consistent with the efforts of the group to reduce the federal budget and the acceleration of existing processes. For example, DOGE members in the Ministry of Education are reported that artificial intelligence tools are used to analyze expenses and programs, reports The Washington Post on Thursday. The representative of the department says that the main attention is paid to the search for cost efficiency.
The GSII Chatbot project of the General Services Administration can bring similar benefits, which will allow employees to make notes faster. The agency hoped to use existing software, such as Google Gemini, but ultimately determined that it would not provide the desired data level, according to one of the people familiar with the project. Castan from Google refused to comment.
This is not the only ambition of DOGE AI that have not failed. On Monday, Sedd described the deployment of “coding agents” as among the main priorities of the agency, according to data described in Wired. These agents help engineers automatically generate, edit and answer questions about the software code in the hope of increasing performance and reducing errors. One of the tools that the team considered, according to the documents viewed by Wired, was Cursor, an encoding assistant developed by Anysphere, a rapidly growing startup of San Francisco.
The leading investors Anysphere include Thrive Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, which are in touch with Trump. Joshua Kushner, the managing partner of Thrive, historically made donations from the political campaign to the democrats, but he is a brother of the son-in-law Trump, Jared Kushner. Andreessen co -founder Mark Andressen said that he advises Trump in technical and energy policy.
Another person who is familiar with the purchases of technologies of the General Services Administration says that the IT team at the agency initially approved the use of the cursor, only in order to recall it later for further consideration. Now DOGE is striving to install Microsoft Github Copilot, the most famous in the world assistant in coding, according to another person familiar with the agency.
The cursor and the administration of general services did not respond to requests about comments. Andressen Gorovitz and Triv refused to comment.
Federal rules require to avoid even the emergence of a conflict of interests in the choice of suppliers. And although there were no well -known widespread problems about the safety of the cursor, by law, federal agencies, as a rule, are obliged to study potential risks of cybersecurity before taking new technologies.
The interest and use of AI of the federal government is not new. In October 2023, the then President Biden ordered the general services administration to determine the priorities of security reviews for several categories of artificial intelligence tools, including chat bots and encoding assistants. But by the end of his term, no one went through even preliminary processes of review of the agency, according to the former official, familiar with them. As a result, none of the specialized coding tools AS also received permission in the framework of Fedramp, GSA programs for centralizing safety reviews and ease of burden for individual institutions.