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DOGE Used AI for Housing Policy. The Government Won’t Say How

WIRED — AI · · International · AI Governance

The Department of Housing and Urban Development has refused to release documents related to DOGE's use of AI in housing policy, responding to a public records request by invoking a legal privilege that does not appear to exist. The withholding leaves the public without basic information about how AI tools shaped decisions affecting housing programs.

Why this matters: AI was used to make or influence housing policy. That affects real people — renters, voucher recipients, people waiting on federal assistance. And the government's response to a straightforward records request was to cite a privilege it apparently made up. That is not a technicality. Inventing legal cover to block transparency is its own problem, separate from whatever the AI actually did. If agencies can shield AI decision-making behind fictional privileges, accountability becomes nearly impossible. Someone needs to explain what the tool did, what data it touched, and what changed because of it.

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