DOGE Used AI for Housing Policy. The Government Won’t Say How
Wired AI Vittoria Elliott
The Department of Government Efficiency used AI tools at HUD to inform policy decisions including identifying regulations for rescission, but the agency is withholding over 100 documents about this work through FOIA denials. HUD cited nonexistent "AI privilege" and presidential communications privilege to exempt documents including files labeled "GPT defined Econ Analysis approach" and various regulatory analysis prompts created by DOGE team members. The lack of transparency about AI's role in government policymaking raises concerns about algorithmic bias and error, with no current U.S. law requiring disclosure of AI use in rule creation.
Why it matters
In response to a public records request, HUD has withheld documents about DOGE’s use of AI—in part by citing a privilege that doesn’t exist.
