The U.S. DOGE Service is using a new artificial intelligence tool to slash federal regulations, with the goal of eliminating half of Washington’s regulatory mandates by the first anniversary of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post and four government officials familiar with the plans.The tool, called the “DOGE AI Deregulation Decision Tool,” is supposed to analyze roughly 200,000 federal regulations to determine which can be eliminated because they are no longer required by law, according to a PowerPoint presentation obtained by The Post that is dated July 1 and outlines DOGE’s plans. Roughly 100,000 of those rules would be deemed worthy of trimming, the PowerPoint estimates — mostly through the automated tool with some staff feedback. The PowerPoint also suggests the AI tool will save the United States trillions of dollars by reducing compliance requirements, slashing the federal budget and unlocking unspecified “external investment.”
That would be amazing. Since these are administrative regulations, too, they don't require Congressional action in most cases.
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I wonder how long it will take to have human eyeballs verify that many changes.
In principle it could be done reasonably quickly; the Federal Government employs almost three million people, so you could just find 100,000 of the most qualified and have each of them review one rule to verify the AI's findings.
In practice, I expect much foot-dragging and digging-in-of-heels.
An alternative take: A Trenk Telenko thread
In fairness, the gentleman contains his own rebuttal: he points to SpaceX beating Boeing because of the loss of institutional memory. Yet while that may have crippled Boeing, it wasn’t institutional memory that set SpaceX up for success. It was exactly the kind of pioneering innovation that clearing out old regulations will enable.
Indeed, DOGE and SpaceX have a fair amount of overlap.
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