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Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer

Incident 11032 Report
Purported DOGE Contract Review Tool Cited in Reports of AI-Driven Misjudgments in VA Budget Cuts

2025-03-18

A purported AI tool using LLMs was deployed to classify Veterans Affairs contracts as expendable based on limited text and simplified criteria. The system allegedly produced hallucinated values and flagged critical healthcare and research services for cancellation. Reportedly, at least two dozen flagged contracts were later terminated.

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Incidents involved as Deployer

Incident 14024 Report
DOGE Reportedly Relied on Unvetted ChatGPT Outputs in Canceling National Endowment for the Humanities Grants

2025-04-02

Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staff reportedly fed National Endowment for the Humanities grant descriptions into ChatGPT to determine whether projects were "DEI," then allegedly used those outputs to help compile a list of grants to terminate. Beginning in April 2025, NEH canceled awards and clawed back funding, reportedly disrupting humanities organizations and projects nationwide after officials allegedly relied on a purportedly flawed, insufficiently vetted AI screening process.

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Other entities that are related to the same incident. For example, if the developer of an incident is this entity but the deployer is another entity, they are marked as related entities.
 

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Sahil Lavingia

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 1103
    2 Reports

    Purported DOGE Contract Review Tool Cited in Reports of AI-Driven Misjudgments in VA Budget Cuts

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Large language model developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1402
    4 Reports

    DOGE Reportedly Relied on Unvetted ChatGPT Outputs in Canceling National Endowment for the Humanities Grants

  • Incident 1103
    2 Reports

    Purported DOGE Contract Review Tool Cited in Reports of AI-Driven Misjudgments in VA Budget Cuts

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Entity

Veterans receiving care through the VA

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1103
    2 Reports

    Purported DOGE Contract Review Tool Cited in Reports of AI-Driven Misjudgments in VA Budget Cuts

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Entity

Veterans

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1103
    2 Reports

    Purported DOGE Contract Review Tool Cited in Reports of AI-Driven Misjudgments in VA Budget Cuts

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Entity

VA contractors

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1103
    2 Reports

    Purported DOGE Contract Review Tool Cited in Reports of AI-Driven Misjudgments in VA Budget Cuts

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Entity

VA clinical and research staff

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1103
    2 Reports

    Purported DOGE Contract Review Tool Cited in Reports of AI-Driven Misjudgments in VA Budget Cuts

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Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1103
    2 Reports

    Purported DOGE Contract Review Tool Cited in Reports of AI-Driven Misjudgments in VA Budget Cuts

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OpenAI large language models

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1103
    2 Reports

    Purported DOGE Contract Review Tool Cited in Reports of AI-Driven Misjudgments in VA Budget Cuts

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Entity

Custom LLM-based contract classifier ("Munchable" tool)

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1103
    2 Reports

    Purported DOGE Contract Review Tool Cited in Reports of AI-Driven Misjudgments in VA Budget Cuts

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Large language models

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1402
    4 Reports

    DOGE Reportedly Relied on Unvetted ChatGPT Outputs in Canceling National Endowment for the Humanities Grants

  • Incident 1103
    2 Reports

    Purported DOGE Contract Review Tool Cited in Reports of AI-Driven Misjudgments in VA Budget Cuts

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Entity

AI-enabled decision support systems

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1402
    4 Reports

    DOGE Reportedly Relied on Unvetted ChatGPT Outputs in Canceling National Endowment for the Humanities Grants

  • Incident 1103
    2 Reports

    Purported DOGE Contract Review Tool Cited in Reports of AI-Driven Misjudgments in VA Budget Cuts

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Entity

Nate Cavanaugh (DOGE)

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1402
    4 Reports

    DOGE Reportedly Relied on Unvetted ChatGPT Outputs in Canceling National Endowment for the Humanities Grants

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Entity

Justin Fox (DOGE)

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1402
    4 Reports

    DOGE Reportedly Relied on Unvetted ChatGPT Outputs in Canceling National Endowment for the Humanities Grants

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OpenAI

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1402
    4 Reports

    DOGE Reportedly Relied on Unvetted ChatGPT Outputs in Canceling National Endowment for the Humanities Grants

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Entity

Chatbot developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1402
    4 Reports

    DOGE Reportedly Relied on Unvetted ChatGPT Outputs in Canceling National Endowment for the Humanities Grants

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Scholars

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1402
    4 Reports

    DOGE Reportedly Relied on Unvetted ChatGPT Outputs in Canceling National Endowment for the Humanities Grants

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National Endowment for the Humanities grantees

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1402
    4 Reports

    DOGE Reportedly Relied on Unvetted ChatGPT Outputs in Canceling National Endowment for the Humanities Grants

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Humanities organizations

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1402
    4 Reports

    DOGE Reportedly Relied on Unvetted ChatGPT Outputs in Canceling National Endowment for the Humanities Grants

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Entity

Epistemic integrity

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1402
    4 Reports

    DOGE Reportedly Relied on Unvetted ChatGPT Outputs in Canceling National Endowment for the Humanities Grants

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Entity

ChatGPT

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1402
    4 Reports

    DOGE Reportedly Relied on Unvetted ChatGPT Outputs in Canceling National Endowment for the Humanities Grants

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Chatbots

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1402
    4 Reports

    DOGE Reportedly Relied on Unvetted ChatGPT Outputs in Canceling National Endowment for the Humanities Grants

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