Jennica Pounds tells the Deseret News why she thinks AI ‘has fundamentally changed the balance of power’ between Americans and government

  • Utah resident Jennica Pounds is ‘DataRepublican,’ which was revealed recently by the Rolling Stone even though Pounds was anonymous.
  • Pounds built AI tools she’s used to help DOGE in its effort to root out waste, fraud and abuse.
  • Pounds told the Deseret News what she thinks is the biggest problem in Washington, and explains why it isn’t all about spending.

The Utah software engineer drawing attention from the White House, the media and the world’s richest man will tell you the political potential of artificial intelligence is best summed up by 1 Samuel Chapter 17.

By her reading, AI is not an uncontrollable threat to humanity, it’s the slingshot in the hands of David that defeats a government Goliath — and it’s the gift that will save America.

“AI gives us the ability to take on massive, entrenched systems that would otherwise be impossible to untangle,” Jennica Pounds told the Deseret News. “Without it, we’d be fighting blind.”

https://www.deseret.com/politics/2025/03/11/datarepublican-jennica-pounds-uses-ai-to-help-doge-doxxed-by-rolling-stone/