White House launches America.gov AI chatbot

What happened: The White House launched America.gov on Tuesday, an AI chatbot that answers questions across roughly 29,000 federal websites. Chief design officer Joe Gebbia, formerly of Airbnb, said it runs on Google's Gemini and xAI's Grok. GSA and the National Design Studio built it. Form filling is slated for 2027.
The claim: Trump called it "one front door for every single question" and said it cannot, in theory, be hacked.
Austin's take: Austin likes seeing the government push technology forward and guesses it's a fairly safe retrieval chatbot over federal sites. His first thought was whether it could eventually file his taxes, and whether we could trust it.
Why it matters: Two commercial AI models are now the front door to federal information, which could make finding government answers far easier.
What to do: Try it for finding federal information, but double-check anything important against the official source page.
Not confirmed yet: The "cannot be hacked" claim is untested; Austin says "let's hope that theory holds up." He hasn't tried the tool yet.

The Loop