Written by: Haim Ravia, Dotan Hammer
The U.S. Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has developed a new artificial intelligence tool, the “DOGE AI Deregulation Decision Tool,” with an ambitious goal: to eliminate half of Washington’s federal regulatory mandates. An internal proposal suggests this could happen by the first anniversary of President Donald Trump’s inauguration.
The AI tool is designed to analyze roughly 200,000 federal regulations to identify about 100,000 rules that are no longer legally required or necessary for agency operations, primarily through automated analysis with some staff feedback.
The proposal estimates that the AI tool could save the United States trillions of dollars by reducing compliance requirements, slashing the federal budget, and unlocking “external investment”. Specifically, it claims the government could recover $3.3 trillion a year by ending rules deemed unnecessary by law and by agency operations.
The tool has reportedly completed “decisions on 1,083 regulatory sections” at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in under two weeks and written “100% of deregulations” at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).
The claim is that this AI tool would save 93% of the human labor involved in deregulation, reducing the estimated 3.6 million “manhours” currently needed to reduce 100,000 regulations. However, despite the ambitious goals, obstacles and concerns have emerged around accuracy, agency resistance, legality, enforcement, and more.
