Leah Feiger

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1,642 appearances 14 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 17 Sep

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Uncanny Valley | WIRED · Why Apple Sued OpenAI; New York Takes On Data Centers; Cyclosporiasis Outbreak · 16 Jul 2026 podcast

But now, the agency appears to be denying Freedom of Information Act requests for information on the development and the use of the AI tools and the way they actually informed these policy decisions.

This all came out according to documents obtained by a FOIA request from Democracy Forward, which is a nonprofit legal organization.

And it's pretty concerning.

You would assume that a year after some of this dust has settled that we'd be able to get a little bit more information.

And from government agency to government agency, HUD really is the latest example here.

We've been just getting tons of stonewalling on additional further details as to what DOGE has been up to, the access they had.

the materials they used.

It's very much about the fact that they used AI, but it's also how did they use AI?

What is still left in the systems?

And like, what were the regulations there?

What got blown by?

Who knew about this?

And these are so many important details that are just missing.

And especially now as people are like going back and trying to untangle the spaghetti web that was like left in their steed.

It's very frustrating for employees, understandably, and frankly should be frustrating for anyone who is going to be impacted by housing policy in the next decade.

20 years in America.

You're 100% right, Zoe.

And in this specific case, HUD employees who spoke to Wired at the time that this all was coming out found that these Doge employees were using AI to identify agency rules for potential rescission or contract cancellations.

And this was happening across government.

But again, I just want to be so clear about what this means, as they were saying,

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