Leah Feiger
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 10 Sep
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Wired had reported that Christopher Sweet, who was then a third year student at the University of Chicago, was one of the people really involved in this effort, as was Scott Langmack, who came to Doge from a property technology startup called Cocoon.
So it's not like these were people who were, A, even necessarily like that well-versed in government work by any means.
But then additionally, the idea of going through like massive government contract lists with AI and being like, yep, good to go.
Probably.
If this is information that the American public wants to know, if this is information that Democracy Forward decides is worth their time, there is no AI exemption under FOIA.
AI talking to people and AI talking to each other is not privileged communications, which is the argument that was being made here.
There are no laws in the US that require the government to disclose if AI has been used in the creation of rules, policies, or regulation.
And so simultaneously, a FOIA like this is the only way that you would find out.
And saying that there is this AI exemption then just creates an entire black box.
Yeah, I know.
The last thing I want to leave you guys with of this, too, is that Lang Mack of the aforementioned property technology startup Cocoon, he's now the executive director of deregulation AI at the Office of Management and Budget, which falls under the executive office of the president, according to his LinkedIn.
So it's not like this person has now disappeared into obscurity and his decision making is
Or, you know, we actually don't know a ton about his decision making because they won't tell us.
It gets to kind of continue being in this black box, which is, again, just to say that like it very much felt like Doge like swept in and swept out in the same wave of the year.
But that's really not the case.
Like the people that got very involved and entrenched these policies from the beginning are still not just in government, but like officially in government, entrenched, serious roles.
Right.
pay scales, et cetera.
And it's a story we're paying really, really close attention to.
And big ups to a senior reporter, Vittoria Elliott, for staying in the weeds on this for us.
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