2026-09-20T23:22:28.549Z
- publishedAt:
Not provided→ 2026-03-07T00:00:00.000Z
SOURCE-LINKED INTELLIGENCE
DOGE Reportedly Relied on Unvetted ChatGPT Outputs in Canceling National Endowment for the Humanities Grants
Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staff reportedly fed National Endowment for the Humanities grant descriptions into ChatGPT to determine whether projects were "DEI," then allegedly used those outputs to help compile a list of grants to terminate. Beginning in April 2025, NEH canceled awards and clawed back funding, reportedly disrupting humanities organizations and projects nationwide after officials allegedly relied on a purportedly flawed, insufficiently vetted AI screening process.
Read original source ↗ Open in workspace
- recordType
- incident-report
- evidenceStatus
- reported
- region
- Global
Reported occurrence date: 2025-04-02T00:00:00.000Z
Evidence & attribution
- AI Incident Database
- AI Incident Database · 2026-03-07T00:00:00.000Z
AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
First collected: 2026-09-19T22:50:59.123Z. This is not the publication date.
Observed changes
AIIC observation times, not verified publisher revision times. Up to eight recent revisions.