Trump’s AI hiring campaign draws interest from 25,000 hopefuls

Roughly 25,000 ‍people have expressed interest in joining the Trump administration’s cadre of ⁠engineers known as Tech Force, a senior Trump administration official said on Tuesday, as the U.S. government looks ‌to install ‌staff with artificial intelligence expertise in federal roles.

The Trump ‌administration will use that list to recruit software and data engineers, in addition to other tech roles, said Scott Kupor, director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, in a post on X. Reuters could not ‌independently verify ‍the 25,000 figure. The interested candidates will ‍compete for 1,000 spots in the first Tech ‌Force cohort.