US government employed AI to analyze workers' files

(Bloomberg) – The US federal government’s central human resource office will start to deploy artificial intelligence to clean up its staff records this year, which still uses the bravest public move to use the technology on sensitive records. The disclosure of the Office or staff management-in a memo of privacy impacts placed on Wednesday following the government’s leadership last week that instructs agencies to “lean forward” over the use of technology to improve services and cut costs. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January in which he recalled former President Joe Biden’s more cautious AI policy, which, according to Trump, said that the US AI innovation had instituted ‘barriers to the US AI innovation’. The White House is still reluctant to recognize the government’s use of AI on sensitive federal data. US agency employees and others have brought lawsuits on the grant of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency Access to that data, partly due to privacy and civil rights over the use of AI. Musk’s Doge teams spread over the government and used the agency’s databases to direct spending cuts and recommend ways to reduce the federal workforce. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed the OPM project on Wednesday. The White House said the project, which was first reported by Fox News, will introduce “historical efficiency” into the federal staff office. OPM said the project would use AI to extract data from electronic staff records, with the aim of correcting inaccurate information. OPM said the work will be done by approved officials and contractors in controlled environments, and that it would use ‘stateless models’ for the project – which means the records would not be used to train or improve AI models. The modernization of staff records was a top goal of Musk’s Doge teams, which Trump instructed to use technology to update federal information technology systems. OPM is currently processing retirement newspaper in a disconnected limestone mine in Pennsylvania. More stories like these are available on Bloomberg.com © 2025 Bloomberg LP first published: 10 Apr 2025, 03:23 am Ist