HUD admits DOGE used AI for policy — then hid the evidence
hud withheld over 100 documents detailing doge's use of ai to identify housing regulations for rescission, citing a nonexistent 'ai privilege'.
documents obtained by democracy forward reveal that hud used ai tools, likely including large language models, to analyze and recommend the rescission of housing regulations under the doge initiative. despite public interest and the known risks of algorithmic bias, hud withheld over 100 files related to these activities, claiming protections for 'deliberative ai input' and presidential communications that legal experts say are misapplied or invalid. this opacity highlights a critical gap in us law, which lacks mandates for disclosing ai's role in policy creation, leaving the public unable to audit the 'prompts' or logic driving government deregulation.