America.gov's AI chatbot said Biden won in 2020, then switched to refusing "political questions" while Trump was still speaking at Tuesday's launch. Its answers can be edited on the operator's schedule, and the first reported edit removed replies that matched the government's own records.
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President Trump introduced America.gov on September 29 as an AI assistant that answers questions from official federal sources. The White House says transactions will come later, so the fair test is how many errands people finish there and how long they take.
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America.gov's chatbot, which draws on about 29,000 federal websites, answers Minecraft prompts with a roughly 1,800-word End Poem rewrite nobody has claimed. TechCrunch judged the text deliberate, and it now sits, with no named author, on a front end due to start hosting people's government processes in 2027.
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HHS chief Robert F Kennedy Jr wants health data linked and AI-searchable to study vaccines and chronic disease, citing Medicaid's tens of millions of children. For private holders of health data, the routes he described run through patient apps, commercial linkers and state reporting.
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Homeland Security plans to have Google's AI propose redactions on 100,000 to 140,000 FOIA requests by the end of September. Officers will review the suggestions, but the plan's stated payoff is faster processing, a measure that cannot show text blacked out in error.
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The camera company has 120,000 license plate readers in 49 states and 7,000 agencies under contract. Dozens of cities and counties have now cut ties, and the hardware is being vandalised.
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