TechSpot – “Plan demands deletion of 100,000 regulations, projecting $1.5 trillion in savings by 2026 A hot potato: Elon Musk may have long departed the Department of Government Efficiency, but DOGE is still causing controversy. A new report claims that the agency is using a new artificial intelligence tool to create a list of federal regulations that will be deleted. The goal is for 50% of regulations to be eliminated before the anniversary of President Trump’s inauguration. The Doge AI Deregulation Decision Tool will be analyzing around 200,000 federal regulations, according to the Washington Post [no paywall], which cites documents it obtained and four government officials. According to a PowerPoint presentation outlining the plans, around 100,000 of these rules would be deemed worthy of deletion. The tool has already been used to make decisions on 1,083 regulatory sections at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in under two weeks. Three employees from the agency said it has been used recently to review hundreds, if not more than 1,000, lines of regulation. There are dangers that come with using AI for these sorts of tasks, of course. One HUD employee said that the tool made several errors, and it claimed those who had drafted various agency regulations misunderstood the law in several places. In reality, the AI had iteself misunderstood the complex language. The system has also been used by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to write “100% of deregulations.”
The presentation includes a timeline in which agencies have until September 1 to use the tool to create their own list of regulations for erasure. After which, “DOGE will roll-up a delete list of 50% of all Federal Regulations (100k Regulatory Rules).”
