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DOGE Put a College Student in Charge of Using AI to Rewrite Regulations

David Gilbert, Vittoria Elliott

created: April 30, 2025, 7:34 p.m. | updated: May 3, 2025, 10:21 a.m.

A young man with no government experience who has yet to even complete his undergraduate degree is working for Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and has been tasked with using artificial intelligence to rewrite the agency’s rules and regulations. “With family roots from Brazil, Chris speaks Portuguese fluently. Staffers from PIH are, specifically, asked to review the AI’s recommendations and justify their objections to those they don’t agree with. “It all sounds crazy—having AI recommend revisions to regulations,” one HUD source says. “But I appreciated how much they’re using real people to confirm and make changes.”Once the PIH team completes the review, their recommendations will be submitted to the Office of the General Counsel for approval.

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