DOGE Slammed by Judge for AI Use in Cutting $100 Million (1)

A US judge blasted the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency project for relying on artificial intelligence tools as it orchestrated roughly $100 million in cuts to federal funding for humanities programs last year.

US District Judge Colleen McMahon released a 143-page opinion on Thursday blocking the National Endowment for the Humanities from carrying out DOGE’s grant terminations. The New York-based judge found that the government’s actions were unconstitutional and that DOGE officials didn’t have authority to direct them.

McMahon slammed DOGE for how it had used the AI platform ChatGPT as part of its process for deciding which grants ...