Employee surveillance isn’t new, but after gutting several agencies, Elon Musk’s team is now using AI to monitor communications, which could involve secure data that could leak.

The surveillance would mark an extraordinary use of technology to identify expressions of perceived disloyalty in a workforce upended by firings and cost cutting.

Staff with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency fear that billionaire and presidential adviser Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is spying on them using artificial intelligence, according to reporting from Reuters, The Guardian, and Crooked Media’s newsletter What a Day.