The cell in which AI was supposedly used to track internal communication is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The managers there were informed by people imposed by the White House that Muska team implements artificial intelligence to monitor employees, In this search for a language considered hostile to Trump or Musk.
According to Reuters's informants, he uses artificial intelligence in EPA to monitor applications and communication software, including Microsoft Teams. – We were told that they were looking for an anti -troops or anti -workshop language, “one of the people working there betrayed. “You have to be careful about what you are saying, what is being written and what is being done,” added one of the managers working at the agency.
According to Reuters, in the official announcement, EPA management stated that “it considers the use of AI in order to optimize the agency function and greater administrative performance, but does not use it because it makes personal decisions together with the dog.” It was not directly referred to that AI is used to monitor employees.
Donald Trump people know about the case
Reuters writes that some members of the US government by Trump administration officials have already been informed about the problem. They alert that supervision with the help of AI would mean disturbing use of technology to identify the manifestations of disloyalty to the US president.
Reuters sources report that the Doge team also uses the Signal application for communication, which would violate the federal data storage regulations, because the messages in this application can be set so that they disappear after some time.
Reuters points out that the use of AI and the Signal application strengthens the concerns of experts for cybersecurity and ethics that Doge works with limited transparency and that Musk or Trump administration can use information collected using AI to pursue your own interests.
Kathleen Clark, government ethics expert at the University of Washington in St. Louis, she emphasized that potential supervision using AI is disturbing. – It looks like abuse of government power In order to suppress or discourage the statements that the President of the United States do not like – she said.
