Work hard on the gut Regulation on the use of AI in the U.S. government is underway.
On Wednesday, the Office of the Office of the CIO of the Office of Management and Budget chaired a video call discussing AI tools for cutting federal regulations, called SweetRex Deregulated AI. The tool is still under development and aims to identify the parts of the regulations that are not required by the regulations and then speed up the process of adopting the updated regulations.
Formerly known as SweetRex Deregulation AI Program Builder or SweetRex Daip, the development and launch is intended to help achieve the goals achieved by President Donald Trump’s executive order “Boom through Deregulation”, which aims to “promote prudent financial management and mitigate unnecessary regulatory agencies.” The deregulation of industrial scale is a core goal proposed in the 2025 project, and the document has become the script of the second Trump administration. According to a PowerPoint presentation obtained by the Washington Post, the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) also estimates that “50% of all federal regulations can be cancelled.”
To this end, SweetRex was developed by Doge partners of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The plan is to push it to other U.S. agencies. Members of the call include staff from the government, including the Environmental Protection Agency, the State Department and the Federal Deposit Insurance Company.
Christopher Sweet, a church branch, was originally introduced to colleagues as “special assistants” until recently a third-year student at the University of Chicago, co-chaired the phone and was identified as the leading developer of Sweetrex (hence its name). He told colleagues that federal workers will increasingly use human and OpenAI tools, “many productivity gains will come from the tools built around these platforms.” For Sweetrex, they “used primarily Google’s family of models, mainly Gemini,” Sweet said.
Neither Sweet nor OMB responded immediately to Wired’s request for comment. HUD’s press office answered simply that the request was “under review”. Google has not responded to a request for comment.
Previously, cable reported the output of deregulated AI tools on HUD. The spreadsheet details how many words can be eliminated from each regulation and gives a percentage of the number to indicate the non-compliance of the regulation. How to calculate this percentage is not clear. At the time, Sweet did not respond to a request for comment, and a HUD spokesman said the agency did not comment on individuals.
The leading call with Sweet on Wednesday was Scott Langmack, a senior consultant at HUD’s education-affiliated sciences, and Kukun, chief operating officer of technology company Kukun, according to his LinkedIn profile. (Wired previously reported that he has application-level access to critical HUD systems; Kukun, a prophet company, according to its website, “in long-term tasks, the task that is hardest to find data.”) While Sweet leads the development side of Sweetrex, Langmack says he is defending different agencies and their welfare. For example, he claims the tool is able to reduce regulations for review and proposed editing from months to just a few hours or days.
