Elon Musk may have left Washington, but DOGE isn’t slowing down in its work.
The Washington Post reports that DOGE staffers have developed an artificial intelligence tool to identify regulations in need of a trim. The goal is to combine AI with agency staff feedback to alter or eliminate about half of the current 200,000 federal rules by next January.
The DOGE AI Deregulation Tool is already in use at the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Its main goal is to carry out the Trump executive order to repeal 10 rules for every new rule issued. Even without AI, the Trump White House has so far reduced regulatory costs by some $100 billion, representing 52.2 million hours in paperwork.
The problem is that it would take 3.6 million man-hours to review 100,000 regulations under the current system.
The AI tool will turbocharge that effort by saving 93 percent of the human labor needed to review each regulation and the public comments on each.