President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is using a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool to eliminate thousands of federal regulations, according to The Washington Post.

The Washington Post cites documents obtained by anonymous sources and officials and explains that the goal is to determine which regulations can be eliminated eliminate and then implement that deregulation by the first anniversary of Trump's return to power on January 20 of next year.

The AI tool will analyze approximately 200,000 federal regulations, according to the cited documentation, which speaks to about 100,000 of those regulations that can potentially be eliminated because they are no longer mandatory by law.

The documents indicate that the platform, with feedback from DOGE staff, has the potential to save the federal government trillions of dollars by cutting red tape.

The tool, which has already been used at the Department of Housing and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, was developed by engineers embedded in the government as part of Elon Musk's DOGE project, who recently left his position at the head of the agency and had a bitter public dispute with Trump that has cooled the relationship between the two.

The use of AI in the US public administration also ties in with the Trump administration's idea of compensating for the staff cuts that DOGE has approved and, theoretically, of improving the efficiency of the services provided by the different agencies.

As part of Trump's plans to propel the US as the world's leading power in AI, an objective that is considered basic for national security, the president himself announced in mid-July an investment of $92 billion in related infrastructure in the state of Pennsylvania, which he wants to turn into one of the epicenters of this technology.