The New YorkerWhy Senator Rand Paul Voted to Limit Donald Trump’s War Powers
Miguel Afonso Caetano"Trump officials planned to let artificial intelligence software developed by one of Elon Musk’s deregulatory foot soldiers undertake “regulation extermination” and even write new federal statutes, according to newly released government documents reviewed exclusively by the Lever.
The documents reveal for the first time how the AI program was pitched to government employees and trained to target certain regulations to boost President Donald Trump’s pro-business deregulation agenda.
According to the records, “SweetREX,” an AI tool developed by a Musk acolyte, was programmed to identify and eliminate rules that imposed costs on private enterprises, limited business innovation, or used race-based classifications, among other criteria. Using such parameters for guidance, the program could also process more than a hundred thousand public comments in less than half an hour.
“The documents reveal, for the first time, the shortcuts this AI tool takes when deciding whether a regulation is legally required and whether its burdens outweigh benefits to the public,” said Daniel McGrath, senior oversight counsel at the legal advocacy group Democracy Forward, which obtained the records through a Freedom of Information Act request."
https://jacobin.com/2026/04/trump-deregulation-artificial-intelligence-musk
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Trump Officials Built an AI Tool to Turbocharge Deregulation
Artificial intelligence has a history of making poor regulatory decisions with disastrous effects on people’s lives. Newly released documents show the Trump administration sought to deploy a powerful AI tool to accelerate its deregulation spree.
Tim RuppertThe case FOR government regulations, beautifully laid out by Cory Doctorow @pluralistic
“While not all regulation is wise or helpful, a world without regulation is a catastrophe. That’s because, in a highly technological world, your ability to do well (or even to live out the day) requires that you correctly navigate innumerable highly technical questions that you can’t possibly answer. You need to know whether you can trust the software in your car’s antilock braking system, whether you should heed your doctor’s advice to get vaccinated, whether the joists over your head at home are sufficient to keep the ceiling from falling in and killing you, and whether your kids’ schooling is adequate or likely to turn them into ignoramuses. It’s not that you lack the intellect and discernment to answer each of these questions. You’re a smart cookie. Given enough time, you could get a PhD’s worth of education in software engineering, cell biology, material science, structural engineering, and pedagogy; investigate each of the offerings before you in each of these categories; and make an intelligent choice that reflects your priorities and the trade-offs you’re willing to make. The problem is that it would take you several lifetimes to acquire all that knowledge, and long before you could do so, you’d be killed by food poisoning because you guessed wrong about whether you could trust the hygiene policies at your local diner.”
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Low TideCar reviewer tears into the Cybertruck for 20 minutes - Boing Boing
https://boingboing.net/2026/04/17/car-reviewer-tears-into-the-cybertruck-for-20-minutes.html
Adam LeeThe Probability Broach: Meet the big bad
Why libertarians can't abide moral complexity.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/daylight/2026/01/30/tpb-meet-the-big-bad/
J Lou@enbypirate the problem is that the libertarianish philosophy that Peter Thiel was refuted in the radical enlightenment by the idea of inalienable rights, which are rights that can’t be given up or transferred even with consent. The right to #democracy is one of these as voting rights can’t be transferred even with consent.
Democratic principles and #capitalism are incompatible due to the anti-democratic structure of the firm that #capitalism requires.
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