Musk is using US government data to train GSAi, an AI Chatbot, and then using this at OPM, Treasury, USAID, Dept of Education despite not resolving the problems from GSA.  
 
Given all the problems encountered at GSA in developing this tool that still has problems, how reliable is the data they generated at USAID used to "delete" the agency given all the fact check errors found? And now they have moved on to Dept of Education.
And what will Musk use all the Treasury data containing personal information on government workers; or Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security information that contains personal information on U.S. citizens for? A judge may have stopped them but long after it was copied to hard drives and/or uploaded to cloud servers.
 
Things Musk can do now even if information is read only per court decision and Musk complies with the courts (2 big "IFs")
1) Stop government payments for Congressionally appropriated funds, that an agency has approved for payment for work done, in progress or completed, eg not pay the bills
2) Reward Allie's and punish enemies (of both Musk or Trump)
3) Competitive Advantage overall rivals like Bezos for space contracts, partnering X with Visa to pay for X account or purchases from advertisers on X
4) AI mistakes in analyzing federal spending already identified at USAID
5) Centralize federal government so only Trump loyalists have access
6) Software changes can break Medicare and Social Security payments 
7) Access to bad actors like Musk/Trump pals Putin/Xi either intentionally or unintentionally as both are known for doing them favors. CIA already had a data breach when DOGE sent lists of agents via unclassified email systems.
Who are Musk's customers besides Trump and the U.S. Government? Is he allowed to commercialize to corporations and /or foreign governments? How much would a corporation with government contracting operations, or a foreign government pay for this? And surprise, surprise, there is a Kushner in-law involved in Chatbot development.
Horse is out of the barn - and in the hands of teenage hackers who have won contests hacking, have domains in Russia, etc. What now for the security of US citizens and National Defense?
"Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is pushing to rapidly develop “GSAi,” a custom generative AI chatbot for the US General Services Administration, according to two people familiar with the project. The plan is part of President Donald Trump’s AI-first agenda to modernize the federal government with advanced technology."
 "introducing an inherently flawed and wildly unreliable technology and allowing it to access copious amounts of sensitive data could have disastrous outcomes."
 " on his first day in office, president Donald Trump revoked the order, setting the stage for a far more loose and potentially reckless, Silicon Valley-inspired "move fast and break things" approach."
 " AI-first strategy" — unintended consequences be damned.... the tech has an tendency to hallucinate facts and leak sensitive data, making it an incredibly poor fit for the job.
 "But the swift embrace of AI tech is hitting major hurdles...According to Wired sources, DOGE's team "quietly halted the rollout of at least one generative AI tool this week.... The shadowy group of Elon Musk cronies had also hoped to employ an AI coding assistant called Cursor, but quickly changed their mind "for further review," according to Wired. Instead, DOGE has been pushing workers to use Microsoft's GitHub Copilot instead."
 "One goal of the initiative, which hasn’t been previously reported, is to boost the day-to-day productivity of the GSA’s roughly 12,000 employees, who are tasked with managing office buildings, contracts, and IT infrastructure across the federal government, according to the two people. Musk’s team also seemingly hopes to use the chatbot and other AI tools to analyze huge swaths of contract and procurement data"
 "Thomas Shedd, a former Tesla employee who now runs Technology Transformation Services, the technology arm of the GSA, alluded to the project in a meeting on Wednesday. “Another [project] I’m trying to work on is a centralized place for contracts so we can run analysis on them"
 "DOGE’s AI initiatives dovetail with the group’s efforts to reduce the federal budget and speed up existing processes. For instance, DOGE members at the Department of Education are reportedly using AI tools to analyze spending and programs, The Washington Post reported on Thursday. A department spokesperson says that the focus is on finding cost efficiencies."
"Shedd described deploying “AI coding agents” as among the agency’s top priorities, according to remarks described to WIRED. These agents help engineers automatically generate, edit, and answer questions about software code in hopes of boosting productivity and reducing errors. One tool the team looked into, according to documents viewed by WIRED, was Cursor, a coding assistant developed by Anysphere, a fast-growing San Francisco startup....Anysphere’s leading investors include Thrive Capital and Andreessen Horowitz—both of which have connections to Trump. Joshua Kushner, Thrive’s managing partner, has historically made political campaign donations to Democrats, but he is the brother of Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Andreessen cofounder Marc Andreessen has said he’s advising Trump on tech and energy policy."
 " the IT team at the agency had initially approved the use of Cursor, only to retract it later for further review. Now, DOGE is pushing to install Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot, the world’s most well-known coding assistant, according to the other person familiar with the agency."
 " Federal regulations require avoiding even the appearance of a conflict of interest in the choice of suppliers. And while there haven’t been any known widespread concerns about Cursor’s security, federal agencies are generally required by law to study potential cybersecurity risks before adopting new technology."
 "Despite the repeated slip-ups, DOGE has already started making use of AI tools within the Department of Education, as the Washington Post reported earlier this week, feeding sensitive data into AI software."
"Among their first targets were the Treasury's payment system and the government's human resources department, known as the Office of Personnel Management, which maintains information on millions of federal employees. DOGE staff have also reportedly accessed payment and contracting systems for Medicare and Medicaid, as well as similar databases for the Department of Veterans Affairs."
"political experts say that the systems and data potentially available to Musk also give him unprecedented power over his allies, enemies, business competitors, and the American people. One expert on authoritarianism, historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat, called his actions a "new kind of coup." Many of Musk's actions appear to violate federal law, according to The Washington Post."
"Georgetown University Prof. Abraham L. Newman told Mashable that the information Musk and DOGE have reportedly accessed "basically tells you everything about our society."
"And yet "when they start to be used for other purposes, for political purposes, then they can be extremely extremely dangerous," and used to "achieve political objectives," says Newman, author of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy."
"The information Musk has access to now, even if in a read-only format as one Treasury official insisted, may include Social Security numbers, federal employee health and personnel records, as well as federal student loan data."
"Speaking anonymously to The Atlantic, one federal contractor with experience working on classified government information-security systems called the situation "The largest data breach and the largest IT security breach in our country's history — at least that's publicly known."
"Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren said this week that Musk may be able to view Americans' payment history and bank account numbers, among other types of personal data....Elon now has the power to suck out all of that information for his own use," she said."
"Musk may also be able to view federal contracts held by companies that may or may not be competitors to Musk's own businesses, which include Tesla, SpaceX, and the social media platform X."
"Musk has yet to publicly produce an ethics waiver for his work with DOGE, as required by government employees who have conflicts of interest, nor has he publicly divested himself from his companies."
"An attempt by Congressional Democrats to subpoena Musk over DOGE's recent actions failed."
"The CIA was reportedly forced by the White House to send an unclassified email with the names of new staff hired in the past two years, according to the New York Times, just the latest example of the Trump regime playing fast and loose with security. If these guys don’t care about protecting the identity of the country’s spies, they clearly care even less about the data housed at the Department of Education."
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