The Trump administration is working on an “AI.gov” website and API to “accelerate government innovation through artificial intelligence,” 404 Media has learned based on code posted on Github and an early version of the site.
The project appears to be led by the General Services Administration’s Office of Technology Transformation, headed by former Tesla engineer Thomas Shedd. Shedd, described by The New York Times as an ally of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has previously discussed using AI to detect fraud, analyze government contracts, and create “AI coding agents” to write software for federal agencies, according to multiple reports.
An early AI.gov website discovered by 404 Media (the URL now redirects to the White House website) describes three tools that are part of a platform “based on the best of American artificial intelligence.” These are an AI-powered chat assistant, an API to connect to models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic, and a console “to analyze implementation across the agency.” The project is expected to be launched on July 4, 404 reports.
DOGE aims to use artificial intelligence to replace the work of thousands of federal employees he helped fire, Wired reports. Although Musk recently left the government and went to war with the president, the AI.gov project shows that DOGE’s legacy is still alive.
