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SCOOP: A young man with no government experience who hasn’t even finished his undergrad degree is working for Elon Musk’s DOGE at the Department of Housing and Urban Development and has been tasked with using AI to rewrite the agency’s rules and regulations.

Chris Sweet—who two sources have been told is the lead on the AI deregulation project for the entire administration—has produced a spreadsheet with ~1000 rows of policy areas where the AI flagged that HUD may have “overreached” and suggesting replacement language. www.wired.com/story/doge-c...

His title is “special assistant,” although an email written by a DOGE staffer and widely shared within HUD states that “a better title might be ‘Al computer programming quant analyst.’” The title shared in that email made little sense to at least one HUD staffer. www.wired.com/story/doge-c...

This is just so fricken ridiculous— who puts such a person in charge of anything?

Someone who wants a person too ignorant and inexperienced and grateful for the job to do anything other than follow orders. Also helps if the person is young enough to think what they’re doing is ‘cool’ instead of shameful.