"The DOGE employees did not appear to question ChatGPT’s judgments, and continued hunting for unacceptable projects. Two weeks later, they sent a master list of 1,477 problematic awards — nearly every active grant made during the Biden administration — to Michael McDonald, the endowment’s ...

March 07, 2026 - 21:09 UTC

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The only surprising bit is that they didn't find a way to make it exactly 1488
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...acting chairman. Mr. McDonald, a veteran of the agency, agreed to let DOGE terminate them, creating what he later described as a “clean slate” for Mr. Trump’s “America First” agenda."

That is insane.
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If he can't be an advocate for the work of the agency, he needs to go. Sadly, it will be after he has allowed so much irreparable damage to be done.
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"Mr. McDonald is still at the agency. On Feb. 4, Mr. Trump nominated him as the permanent chair, a position that requires Senate confirmation."
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We've got spineless yes men (and women) throughout the government, is what I learned last year.
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TBF, this wasn't "ChatGPT's Judgments."

Using an LLM to "Judge" investments and grants would require clever people.

They just did Find and Replace with ChatGPT because they were too stupid to use SQL to do it. :(
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