Message #48443

[Jitendra Hydonus]

Federal employees are about to get a new level of workplace scrutiny. The Elon Musk-led cost-cutting team in the Trump administration is using AI to scan employees’ communications for anti-Trump feelings, Reuters reported. One former federal staffer said while they were used to scrutiny in their job, “now, the stakes are higher.”

It’s no secret that the Trump administration is fixing particularly hard scrutiny on the federal workforce. But now, they’ve reportedly added artificial intelligence to the mix.

The Elon Musk-led team known as the Department of Government Efficiency has rolled out AI to monitor workers’ communications for perceived anti-Trump sentiment, Reuters reported, citing two unnamed people. The technology is already being used at the Environmental Protection Agency, the report said.

Firing or reassigning workers based on their feelings about President Trump would be against the law, which protects civil servants from being penalized for political reasons.

“It’s a prohibited personnel practice to discriminate against someone for partisan political reasons,” said Block. “It’s essentially political discrimination.”

Yahoo news