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DOGE monitors employee conversations to identify those who attack or criticize Trump or Musk...
Trump administration officials have told several US government employees that Elon Musk's DOGE technology team is using artificial intelligence to monitor employee communications.
According to Reuters, the DOGE team is also using the Signal app to communicate, according to another person with direct knowledge of the matter, potentially violating federal data retention rules because messages can disappear after a period of time.
'Reuters' writes that the use of AI and Signal reinforces concerns among cybersecurity experts that DOGE is operating with limited transparency and that billionaire Musk or the Trump administration could use the information gathered with AI to advance their own interests, or pursue political objectives.
Kathleen Clark, a government ethics expert at Washington University in St. said: "If they are using Signal and they are not backing up every message to federal files, then they are acting illegally."
Reuters interviews with nearly 20 people with knowledge of DOGE’s operations — and an examination of hundreds of pages of court documents from lawsuits challenging DOGE’s access to data — highlight the use of AI and other technologies in federal government operations.
At the Environmental Protection Agency, for example, some EPA managers were told by Trump appointees that Musk's team is using AI to monitor workers, seeing if they attack or insult Trump or Musk in text messages, the two sources said.
The EPA, which enforces laws such as the Clean Air Act and works to protect the environment, has come under intense scrutiny from the Trump administration. Since January, it has laid off nearly 600 employees and said it would eliminate 65% of its budget, which could require further staff reductions.
Trump appointees who took positions at the EPA told managers that DOGE was using AI to monitor apps and communications software, including Microsoft Teams, which is widely used for virtual calls and chats, two sources familiar with the comments said. “We’ve been told they’re looking for anti-Trump or anti-Musk language,” said a third source familiar with the EPA. Reuters could not independently confirm whether AI was being used.
"Be careful what you say, what you write and what you do," a manager said, according to one of the sources.
After this story was published, the EPA acknowledged in a statement that it was “looking at AI to better optimize agency functions and administrative efficiency” but said it was not using AI “as it makes personnel decisions in collaboration with DOGE.” It did not directly address whether it was using AI to monitor workers. Musk has described DOGE as a technology-driven effort to make the U.S. federal government more efficient by targeting fraud and abuse. He has said the goal was to cut $1 trillion in spending, or 15% of the annual U.S. budget.
Few argue that the U.S. government and its aging computer systems need to be modernized. But Democrats say Musk and Trump are purging the government of nonpartisan public servants and installing loyalists who would turn a blind eye to corruption. Many Republicans and independents are also critical of DOGE’s actions.
Clark, the ethics specialist, said the potential surveillance was troubling. "It sounds like an abuse of government power to suppress or obstruct those the president of the United States doesn't like," she said.
Last year, before Trump was elected, Musk suggested that AI could be used to replace government workers, according to a person with direct knowledge of his comments. “The concept was that by taking government data, they could build the most dynamic AI system ever,” the person said, adding that AI could then “do the work.” /Pamphlet
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