Elon just hired a 21-year-old to take over DOGE’s AI team.
And while he has ZERO experience working in government...
He's already started cutting + BILLION in key programs.
Here's why Elon's U.S. Govt. is starting to look like a startup lab:🧵
A college junior walks into the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
No government badge. No law degree. Not even finished with undergrad.
Within weeks, he's given access to databases containing sensitive info on millions of Americans...
He gets handed a mission that would make seasoned bureaucrats sweat:
• Use AI to scan EVERY federal housing regulation
• Delete anything that "overreaches" the law
• Do it fast
Career officials with 30+ years experience now report to him.
But who is this prodigy?
Meet Christopher Sweet.
• Third-year economics student at the University of Chicago
• Summer analyst at private equity shops
• Zero government experience
But that's exactly why Elon picked him...
Sweet's weapon of choice?
An AI model that scans thousands of pages of regulations in minutes.
It spits out an Excel spreadsheet with 1,000+ rows flagging "government overreach."
Here's the terrifying part:
Sweet isn't just playing with housing rules.
He's the lead on AI deregulation for the ENTIRE Trump administration.
The model he's testing at HUD?
It's being refined to rewrite regulations across ALL federal agencies.
Think about what this means:
• Environmental protections
• Healthcare standards
• Food safety rules
• Education policies
All getting the AI treatment from a college student who's never held a government job.
This is Musk's vision: Move fast. Break bureaucracy.
The process is brutally efficient:
1. AI crawls the Code of Federal Regulations
2. Flags anything it deems "excessive"
3. Sweet presents findings to department heads
4. They defend or fold
5. Changes rush to legal for approval
Years of public debate? Compressed into days.
Why trust a 21-year-old with zero experience?
Because that's the point.
Musk believes career bureaucrats are the problem:
Too slow. Too cautious. Too attached to "process."
Sweet represents the solution:
Young. Fearless. Unburdened by knowing what could go wrong.
One HUD staffer called Sweet's work "redundant":
"Every rule went through a multi-year multi-stakeholder meatgrinder."
And that's what DOGE wants to destroy.
Democracy is slow. Startups are fast.
Guess which model just took over Washington...
Sweet's story exposes a brutal truth:
Visibility crushes qualifications.
A 21-year-old with zero government experience now controls AI regulation because he got on Musk's radar.
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