PYMNTS.com February 6, 2025
Representatives of the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have reportedly begun feeding sensitive information from government departments and agencies into artificial intelligence (AI) software to search for opportunities for spending cuts.
DOGE started this process at the Department of Education and plans to do the same thing at other departments and agencies, the Washington Post reported Thursday (Feb. 6), citing unnamed sources.
While DOGE is searching for potential spending cuts, the data its representatives are feeding into the AI software includes sensitive internal financial data and personally identifiable information for people who manage grants, according to the report.
Putting the data into AI software increases the risk of cyberattacks and of errors generating by AI systems that can...
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