Will railroaders’ safety be compromised? DOGE using AI to eliminate federal regulations | Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen

Will railroaders’ safety be compromised? DOGE using AI to eliminate federal regulations | Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen

According to a disturbing report from the Washington Post, the so-called U.S. Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is using a new artificial intelligence tool to slash federal regulations, with the goal of eliminating half of Washington’s regulatory mandates by January 2026. The AI tool, called the “DOGE AI Deregulation Decision Tool,” is supposed to analyze roughly 200,000 federal regulations to determine which can be eliminated because t…