Brown University eliminated 103 positions months after Alex Shieh, a sophomore at the time, used a combination of AI and public data to launch Bloat@Brown, a website that listed the names and titles of each of the school's nearly 4,000 administrators. Shieh has since left the school to launch the Antifraud Company, which intends to use AI to identify the billions of dollars of outright fraud that is perpetrated against American taxpayers every year.

Although the topic of waste, fraud, and abuse hasn't gotten as much attention since the flash in the pan that was the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), it remains a huge drain of taxpayer dollars.

In 2024, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) estimated that the federal government loses between $233 billion and $521 billion a y

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