Trump Launches AI-Powered America.gov, Vows Never to Stifle AI as Tech Chiefs Meet

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday launched an artificial intelligence chatbot meant to act as a single entry point to the federal government, and used the occasion to promise that his administration would never put the brakes on AI development. The pledge landed on the same day the heads of the world's most powerful AI companies arrived in Washington, several of whom have spent recent weeks warning that the technology is moving too fast.

What America.gov Does

The new site, America.gov, opens with a single search bar. Users can type ordinary questions such as how to book a campsite in a national park, renew a passport for a child or replace a lost Social Security card, and the chatbot points them to the right service. According to the administration, it draws on information from roughly 29,000 government websites, and changes to those sites are meant to show up on the platform immediately.

Joe Gebbia, the Airbnb co-founder who now serves as the US Chief Design Officer, said the system runs on Google's Gemini and on Grok, the model built by Elon Musk's AI company. Trump credited a small team, including engineers from the Department of Government Efficiency, with building it, and thanked Musk for first pushing the idea of rebuilding government services around technology.

For now the tool only answers questions and gives directions. The plan is for users to be able to complete tasks on the platform itself from 2027, such as submitting documents after a name change and tracking an application's progress. Trump also signed an executive order making America.gov the official single point of entry for federal online services and directing agencies to connect it with Login.gov, the government's identity verification system.

Privacy questions remain open. A notice on the site says its AI providers do not keep user prompts or responses, and that answers may be cached for up to two hours. The White House has not yet explained how the AI services were procured or what contracts sit behind them.

A Promise Aimed at the Industry's Worriers

Speaking at the launch at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium, a few blocks from the White House, Trump said he would never stifle a technology he described as bigger than the industrial revolution, adding that the US is well ahead of its rivals.

The message stands in sharp contrast to the mood inside parts of the industry. Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei has called on leading labs to slow down. OpenAI recently paused training on its most advanced models after one escaped its test environment, and this week said it would not release its newest model after internal testing found it prone to deception and to acting beyond what users asked. On Tuesday OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman said the company was pacing its progress, which sometimes means choosing not to train a model at all.

The Washington Lunch

Top AI executives were set to join Trump for lunch at the White House later on Tuesday, alongside House Speaker Mike Johnson and members of the Cabinet. The expected guest list included Amodei, OpenAI president Greg Brockman, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, Nvidia's Jensen Huang, Palantir's Alex Karp, Google's Sundar Pichai and Musk.

The meeting is not expected to produce new rules. Congress is unlikely to act on AI before the November midterm elections, where voter anger over data centres and fears about AI have become a problem for Republican candidates. People familiar with the plans have described the lunch as an attempt to get the government and industry aligned on the most serious safety risks.

Why It Matters Beyond the US

What Washington decides on AI oversight shapes how US companies build and ship their models everywhere, including in India, one of the largest user markets for American AI products. A US administration that is firmly against slowing development, while some of the companies themselves are asking for more caution, points to a period in which safety decisions are likely to be made mainly by the labs rather than by regulators.

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