DOGE Is Using AI To Centralize Government Power. It’s Time to Flip the Script.

In a piece for Tech Policy Press, RethinkAI Fellows Eric Gordon and Neil Kleiman stress that DOGE has commandeered the civic tech movement and showcase why AI is actually one of the few paths back to democratic input and true government efficiency.

According to reports, DOGE, under the leadership of the billionaire Elon Musk, has scanned federal employees’ communications to identify anti-Musk or anti-Trump sentiment and is seeking to merge federal databases with personal information about US residents into one master database.

It’s time to flip the script (again) and break the government’s stranglehold on information. Rather than centralize power, let’s use AI to distribute it.