Musk Power Play: Collecting Treasury and IRS Info for his New AI Program

According to Bloomberg, Elon Musk’s all-seeing, all-knowing Grok-3 artificial intelligence program has surpassed all competitors: Google’s Gemini, Anthropic’s Claude, DeepSeek’s V3, and even OpenAI’s GPT-4o. And Musk’s AI is likely feasting on info from federal databases.

It reveals Elon Musk’s real power play: obtaining every American’s financial, medical, tax and personal information. But here’s what makes this story politically significant: Grok-3 has existed for just 19 months. That means Musk, operating at breakneck speed, has nearly caught up to—and in some cases, surpassed—the world’s largest and most well-funded AI research labs.

Revival of the Stasi internal spying program

Musk is likely setting up an East-Germany “Stasi” system to spy and punish Americans. The Stasi spied on East Germans’ daily lives from 1950 to 1990. The internal spy agency read personal mail, audio and video surveillance, and it used extortion and intimidation to crush dissent.

How could Musk’s AI work? Suppose you wrote a letter to the editor criticizing Trump. Trump could contact your employer and demand that they fire you. The IRS could tie up your life for years, nitpicking your tax returns and turning innocent errors into crimes. And the Justice Department could charge you with a felony, claiming your letter published false information to undermine Homeland Security.

Mining government databases

What Musk is feeding into his AI models should raise eyebrows.

As the unofficial head of Donald Trump’s “Department of Government Efficiency,” Musk has been granted rare access to federal agency databases, including the Treasury, IRS, Department of Justice and other agencies that have detailed personal information on all Americans.

Musk’s team has also been scouring government records—an unprecedented opportunity to access vast amounts of non-public data.

“If that data is being used to train Grok-3, Musk isn’t just catching up to OpenAI and Google. He’s building an AI model with access to proprietary information that no other competitor has,” says political analyst Taegan Goddard in Political Wire.

Musk already dominates electric vehicles and commercial spaceflight. He may be on the verge of doing the same in artificial intelligence while holding a front-row seat in shaping the Trump administration.

“That could soon make Musk the most powerful man on the planet,” Goddard says.