{"id":181750,"date":"2026-01-26T12:51:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T17:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/26\/trump-admin-reportedly-plans-to-use-ai-to-write-federal-regulations\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T12:55:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T17:55:17","slug":"trump-admin-reportedly-plans-to-use-ai-to-write-federal-regulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/26\/trump-admin-reportedly-plans-to-use-ai-to-write-federal-regulations\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump admin reportedly plans to use AI to write federal regulations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/trump-admin-reportedly-plans-to-use-ai-to-write-federal-regulations-175155111.html\">Trump admin reportedly plans to use AI to write federal regulations<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/trump-admin-reportedly-plans-to-use-ai-to-write-federal-regulations-175155111.html\">https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/trump-admin-reportedly-plans-to-use-ai-to-write-federal-regulations-175155111.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-26 12:51:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.engadget.com\">www.engadget.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Trump administration plans to use Google Gemini to draft important federal regulations, starting with the Department of Transportation (DOT).<\/li>\n<li>This initiative was presented to DOT staffers, with agency attorney Daniel Cohen discussing AI&#8217;s potential to transform the rulemaking process.<\/li>\n<li>DOT&#8217;s general counsel, Gregory Zerzan, indicated President Trump&#8217;s enthusiasm for the idea, suggesting the DOT would be the first agency fully enabled to use AI for drafting rules.<\/li>\n<li>There is a focus on speed and efficiency; Google Gemini can draft regulations in minutes, compared to the months typically required by human staff.<\/li>\n<li>Skeptics raise concerns about the quality and consequences of regulations produced by large language models like Google Gemini, fearing potential mistakes could lead to unsafe conditions or legal liabilities.<\/li>\n<li>DOT&#8217;s former acting chief artificial intelligence officer, Mike Horton, and Ohio State University&#8217;s Bridget Dooling, both express reservations about relying on an AI tool for drafting critical and complex regulations.<\/li>\n<li>The DOT has experienced a significant loss of over 4,000 employees since Trump&#8217;s second term began, including over 100 attorneys, potentially impacting the expertise available for regulatory drafting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump admin reportedly plans to use AI to write federal regulations https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/trump-admin-reportedly-plans-to-use-ai-to-write-federal-regulations-175155111.html Publish Date: 2026-01-26&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":181751,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/GvSmhZ_enLc7kuIGTKHGdw--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyMDA7aD04MDA-\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2025-09\/cab28bc0-9e4b-11f0-b52e-25a82bf4dffb","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-181750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181752,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181750\/revisions\/181752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}