Nightmare Scenario While making a show of feeding a government agency “into the wood chipper,” billionaire Elon Musk’s lackeys have secretly been feeding another’s sensitive data into AI software. As The Washington Post reports, representatives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency — some of whom are literal teenagers — have used the technology to investigate the Education Department’s programs and spending, as part of Musk’s promise to cut down federal expenditures. The exact nature of the tool is unclear, but the AI software is accessed through Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing service, according to the report. Among the data being probed by the AI includes identifying information on people who manage grants, along with sensitive internal financial data. Even so, the education department’s new deputy assistant secretary for communications insists that everything’s being done above board. Staffers “are focused on making the Department more cost-efficient, effective, and accountable to the taxpayers,” Madi Biedermann wrote in a Thursday statement, per WaPo. “There is nothing inappropriate or nefarious going on.” Data Driven Beyond questions about whether Musk, a conflict of interest incarnate, and his extremely young DOGE employees should be accessing sensitive data and vital organs of government functioning, the use of AI in this fashion signals an alarming disregard for safety. Under the previous Biden administration’s AI protocols, federal agencies were instructed not to use AI until after extensive safety testing and guidelines were established, WaPo notes. Elsewhere, large organizations including banks and companies like Amazon banned employees from using large…Elon Musk's Henchmen Feeding Sensitive Government Data Into AI