HHS warned employees that if they respond to Elon Musk's request to list five things they accomplished last week to assume it would be read by malign foreign actors.

The revelation comes as federal workers face a midnight deadline to respond. WASHINGTON — Responses to the Elon Musk-directed email to government employees about what work they had accomplished in the last week are expected to be fed into an artificial intelligence system to determine whether those jobs are necessary,

Some federal agencies, including the State and Defense Departments, told their employees not to respond to an email asking for a list of tasks they completed.