In recent weeks, the Musk team has worked to quickly save costs in the US government, which has seen the annual shortage of the past three years. The Office of Personnel Management, which acts as the HR department for the government and is stacked with Musk -Loyalists, has encouraged federal employees to resign if they cannot return to the office five days a week and commit themselves to a culture of Loyalty and excellence.
The AI initiatives of Doge are in line with the group's efforts to reduce the federal budget and to accelerate existing processes. Dog -members of the Department of Education, for example, use AI tools to analyze expenses and programs, the Washington Post reported Thursday. A spokesperson for the department says that the emphasis is on finding cost efficiency.
The GSAI Chatbot project of the General Services administration can provide comparable benefits, allowing employees to draw up memos as an example faster. The agency had hoped to use existing software such as Google Gemini, but ultimately determined that it would not offer the desired level of data, according to one of the people who are familiar with the project. Google spokesperson Jose Castañeda refused to comment.
It is not the only Doge AI ambition that has not been out. On Monday, Shedd described the use of “AI coding agents” as one of the top priorities of the agency, according to comments described to Wired. These agents help engineers automatically generate, edit and answer about software code in the hope of increasing productivity and reducing errors. A tool that the team investigated, according to documents viewed by Wired, Cursor, a coding assistant was developed by Anysphere, a fast -growing startup in San Francisco.
The leading investors of Anysphere include Thrive Capital and Andreessen Horowitz – both have connections with Trump. Joshua Kushner, the managing partner of Thrive, has made historical political campaignonations to Democrats, but he is the brother of Trump's son -in -law, Jared Kushner. Fellow founder of Andreessen, Marc Andreessen, said that he advises Trump on technology and energy policy.
Another person who is familiar with the technological purchases of the General Services Administration says that the IT team of the agency had initially approved the use of Cursor, only to withdraw it later for further assessment. Now DOGE is insisting on installing Microsoft's Github Copilot, the world's most famous coding assistant, according to the other person familiar with the agency.
Cursor and the General Services Administration did not respond to requests for comments. Andreessen Horowitz and Thrive refused to comment.
Federal regulations should even avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest in the choice of suppliers. And although there has been no known widespread concern about the safety of the cursor, federal agencies are generally required by law to study potential cyber security risks before they accept new technology.
The importance of the federal government and the use of AI is not new. In October 2023, President Biden ordered the General Services Administration to priorize security reviews for different categories AI tools, including chatbots and coding assistants. But towards the end of his term of office, no one had even obtained the assessment processes for the provisional agencies, according to a former officer who was known to it. As a result, no dedicated AI-assisted coding tools have authorized under Fed disaster, a GSA program to centralize security assessments and to alleviate the burden for individual agencies.
