# DOGE is Using AI the Wrong Way.

1 Opinion March 31, 2025 the hill ![Vasant Dhar](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/vdhar-article.jpg?itok=pbljmsFi)By Vasant Dhar

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President Trump and Elon Musk’s DOGE initiative is misapplying artificial intelligence and missing its full potential.

The first round of mass layoffs of government employees has resulted in a public backlash. In response, the president said the next phase of the DOGE initiative will be more precise: “I don’t want to see a big cut where a lot of good people are cut.”

So what would a better approach to leveraging AI in a government landscape — the scalpel instead of the chainsaw — look like? Let’s start by examining the current use of AI and why it is missing the mark.

Read the full [*The Hill* article](https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/5222849-doge-is-using-ai-the-wrong-way/).
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*Vasant Dhar is Professor at the NYU Stern School of Business and the Center for Data Science, and host of the podcast Brave New World at* [*BraveNewPodcast.com*](https://bravenewpodcast.com/) *that focuses on the world that our future selves will inhabit.*

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