Doge reportedly using AI tool to create 'delete list' of federal regulations

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Guardian

Sat 26 Jul 2025 11.43 EDT
Last modified on Sat 26 Jul 2025 11.44 EDT


The “department of government efficiency” (Doge) is using artificial intelligence to create a “delete list” of federal regulations, according to a report, proposing to use the tool to cut 50% of regulations by the first anniversary of Donald Trump’s second inauguration.

The “Doge AI Deregulation Decision Tool” will analyze 200,000 government regulations, according to internal documents obtained by the Washington Post, and select those which it deems to be no longer required by law. Doge, which was run by Elon Musk until May, claims that 100,000 of those regulations can then be eliminated, following some staff feedback.

A PowerPoint presentation made public by the Post claims that the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) used the AI tool to make “decisions on 1,083 regulatory sections”, while the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau used it to write “100% of deregulations”. The Post spoke to three HUD employees who told the newspaper AI had been “recently used to review hundreds, if not more than 1,000, lines of regulations”.

During his 2024 campaign, Donald Trump claimed that government regulations were “driving up the cost of goods” and promised the “most aggressive regulatory reduction” in history. He repeatedly criticized rules which aimed to tackle the climate crisis, and as president he ordered the heads of all government agencies to undertake a review of all regulations in coordination with Doge. Asked about the use of AI in deregulation by the Post, White House spokesperson Harrison Fields said “all options are being explored” to achieve the president’s deregulation promises.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/26/doge-ai-tool-delete-list-federal-regulations

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Link to WaPo article - https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/07/26/doge-ai-tool-cut-regulations-trump/

[Lithos]

1. Assume these of course are no longer needed because they are working

And the problem they were designed for is now being managed.

Or more importantly, they were designed to prevent fraud or something similar and are just too inconvenient for billionaires.

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[littlemissmartypants]

2. They were mentioned...

During the AI EO signing this past week. Mostly environmental protections, energy related. The Anti-president keep talking about how anyone would be able to build their own power stations...anyone. A business, corporation, individuals and sell their extra energy back to the grid.

Also, permits will be expedited with no impact studies or oversight to "MAGA." He said it takes too long to get things done and doing away with the rules will speed up progress. (Of course, his thoughts center around killing and destroying. So, not much to expound about.)

https://democraticunderground.com/100220508412

[Lithos]

5. It's not so much "destroy"

It's the myopic viewpoint of a developer who gets their money out quickly and leaves cleaning up the (c)remains to others - the "suckers" so to speak. The ultimate in corporate socialism.

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[littlemissmartypants]

6. Oh, it's definitely to destroy.

He's a psychopath. So are all in his entourage. It's a major motivation for them.

Their twisted mantra is, "to love is to hurt."

Characteristics of Psychopaths

1. Aggressive, callous, and cunning
2. Complete absence of conscience and empathy
3. Very adept at manipulating others
4. Willingness to engage in immoral, criminal conduct
5. Willingness to take what they want and do as they please, regardless of who is hurt or wronged
6. Deceptive ability to appear outwardly benevolent
7. Deceptive ability to behave in superficially charming ways to hide purely selfish motives
8. Willingness to use intimidation and violence to control others in order to satisfy their own needs
9. Willingness to intentionally violate the basic inherent human rights of others
10. Complete absence of any sense of guilt or remorse for the harm their actions have caused to others
11. Rationalization of their own immoral behavior
12. Will attempt to lay blame upon someone else for their own conduct
13. Denial, will deny their own wrongdoing outright
14. Utter contemptuousness toward the feelings and desires of their fellow beings
15. Pathological lying, will say anything without any concern for truth to advance their own hidden agendas
16. Ablity to feign [fake] normal human emotions and empathy
17. Distorted sense of the consequences of their actions
18. Total failure to accept any responsibility for their own socially irresponsible ways
19. Strong bellef that they will never be brought to justice for their criminal behavior

[Lithos]

8. I slightly disagre

Psychopaths tend to pursue short-term profits in a calculated, manipulative, and often dangerous manner, completely disregarding the impact on others and the long-term health of organizations or systems in the process.

Short term profits over long term impacts is a hallmark trademark of a psychopath....

On Edit:

https://innerself.com/social/economy/31626-psychopaths-financial-industry.html

https://www.aru.ac.uk/news/psychopaths-prepared-to-spark-financial-crisis-for-profit

https://jp.reuters.com/article/as-psychopath-ceos-destroy-value-nice-ones-create-it-james-saft-idUSKBN19C2XZ/

[littlemissmartypants]

9. Certainly your prerogative.

I assert that not all psychopaths are created equal. They certainly don't intentionally follow the rules.

Also, the laws of unintended consequences are inescapable, especially when the psychopaths are idiots as is the case with the Anti-president, D. J. Trump.

[slightlv]

7. Deregulation by AI on steroids. Do you feel safer being controlled by Artificial Intelligence yet? nt

[Dem2theMax]

3. Let me guess -

Two of the 'regulations' will be the entirety of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

[Skittles]

4. the wish list of their corporate donors