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The Trump administration on Tuesday launched America.gov, an AI-powered website meant to help Americans find government information and eventually complete tasks like renewing passports and enrolling in Medicare in one place.
Getting into it: The homepage is built around a chatbot, much like ChatGPT, where users can type or speak questions like how to replace a Social Security card, register to vote or change their name after getting married, and it pulls answers from about 29,000 federal, state and local websites with links to the original sources. No account is needed, and the site says it doesn’t offer “campaign or party information” or give financial, tax or legal advice.
US Chief Design Officer Joe Gebbia, who sits on Tesla’s board, said it runs on Google’s Gemini and Elon Musk’s Grok. For now, it can only answer questions, but the administration says by early 2027 users will be able to fill out forms, renew passports, enroll in Medicare and apply for federal jobs directly through the site.
“We are launching today something that is not just simply a website, it’s a restoration of America’s founding promise and it’s a reinvention of your government for the 21st century and beyond,” President Trump said at the launch, also claiming the site “cannot, in theory, be hacked into” and that personal information “is not collected or stored.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio showed off a mock-up of how passports will work on the site in 2027, with applicants entering their details, snapping and uploading their own photo and following the passport until it shows up in the mail, promising “no printing forms, no drug store hostage photo, no appointment, no line.”
This all comes just hours before Trump’s White House meeting with tech CEOs, at a time when a string of AI-driven security breaches has some in the industry urging a slowdown. Trump waved that off Tuesday, saying, “We do not surrender to fears about what technology will do to us.”
