Trump unveils new site to simplify access to government services

America.gov for now functions like a chatbot comparable to ChatGPT or Claude, pointing users to official gov’t websites.The administration of United States President Donald Trump has launched a new website called America.gov aimed at simplifying access to government information.The website functions much like a chatbot comparable to OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude and points users to official government sources for questions such as passport renewals.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Trump made the right decision to reject Iran’s offerlist 2 of 3Trump announces $15bn steel mill project in Iowa before US midtermslist 3 of 3Marco Rubio says UK airbase incident involved ‘foreign actor’end of listThe president announced the new site on Tuesday alongside several Cabinet officials, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.In a speech, the president claimed that the website would not store user information and used the opportunity to tout simplified access to information about elections and applications for citizenship.The site is powered by Google’s Gemini AI and xAI’s Grok, according to the chief design officer, Joe Gebbia.The executive order announcing the new site calls it “a unified digital front door to the Federal Government for every individual in the United States seeking Federal information or services”.It also says the site will provide “an entry through which an individual may sign in, communicate in plain language, receive accurate answers, and, where authorized and technically available, complete Government transactions without being required to navigate the websites of multiple agencies.”White House officials told Al Jazeera that the website will abide by the security protocols of the government agency users inquire about, and it will be retained by those agencies and not America.gov, for example, Medicare.