White House · Gemini · Donald Trump · U.S. · Federal Reserve (FED) · Google · The Register
Trump releases America.gov with AI chatbots at its core
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Gemini, Grok now serving as front door to federal resources on unfinished, poorly designed website.
Key facts
- The White House tells them that the embedded chatbots can provide complete answers culled from the 29,000 government websites that were ingested for the platform, but all those additional features
- Advances in technology now make possible a fundamentally different relationship between the people and the Federal Government,” Trump’s EO read in part
- The idea that the Trump administration would put access to the federal government behind AI chatbots isn’t surprising given how readily the White House has embraced AI since Trump returned to office
- A recent coup at the team overseeing the US Web Design System, which maintains design standards and provides components that help government websites from the federal all the way down to the local
Summary
If you want accurate information about life-changing government services, a potentially hallucinating chatbot might not be your first choice. Trump announced the launch of America.gov in an executive orde r on Tuesday, describing the new site as a “unified digital front door to the Federal Government for every individual in the US seeking Federal information or services.” As to what that front door will look like, the key thing to pay attention to in the EO is that the site is a place to “communicate in plain language” and ostensibly “receive accurate answers,” and they all know what that means: It’s an AI chatbot. Google confirmed as much in its own announcement that it was a technology partner in the America.gov initiative, "leveraging Gemini to help more than 100 million people access critical public resources with greater speed and ease.