America.gov uses AI to answer your government questions from 29,000 official sites
America.gov – Whatever you need from government, start here
America.gov is a new AI-powered portal that consolidates 29,000 federal, state, and local government websites into one place. It provides simple answers sourced exclusively from official sites, with no ads and a privacy-first design that doesn't store personal information. Planned for 2027 are features to complete forms, track progress, and organize tasks across agencies.
America.gov uses AI to get simple answers only from official government sources. It’s free to use, never includes ads, and keeps your privacy protected.
- karim79
I wish they'd called it americafuckyeah.gov
- VoidWhisperer
I understand that having the fingerprint unlock icon over the text about 'keeping your privacy protected' is supposed to represent protecting 'your privacy', but if you click it, it doesn't even go away, so it just becomes an annoying impediment to trying to read. Am I alone in thinking this or is that entire paragraph just generally poorly designed?
Edit: Also hope that they don't plan on having anyone using ancient software (specifically IE, which I'm sure there are probably some government agencies somewhere that probably do) having the website work - even if you use an IE user agent, it will use SSE.
- maherbeg
OK, there's a lot of negative comments here, but this is a great idea at a high level. It really is hard to figure out where to do a thing and it's also very easy to get phished. If they can figure out how to help people get all the services they're eligible for that'll be an amazing improvement for the people.
- sssilver
If anyone's wondering how this works, it looks like[1] Gemini + guardrails:
> Google is proud to be named a technology partner in this vital initiative, leveraging Gemini to help more than 100 million people access critical public resources with greater speed and ease
[1] https://blog.google/company-news/outreach-and-initiatives/pu...
- mellosouls
I haven't tried this but in principle I think this sort of finding a needle in a haystack situation (finding the correct path to assistance in a government service) is one of the rare circumstances where a well-crafted chatbot can be genuinely useful rather than just irritating.
- none_to_remain
People are posting screenshots claiming it's a Chinese model but they seem likely fake?
I didn't get it to name the underlying model but I wasn't gonna try very hard to jailbreak FedGPT...
It was happy to mention what happened June 3-4, 1989 so if it is Chinese-origin under the hood seems like the U.S. Feds must have beaten it up a bit before deployment.
- karlgkk
https://america.gov/_astro/roadmap-desktop.Dbr56P5U.webp
that's not north carolina lol
- cush
This is such a genuinely useful way LLMs can truly help people. A maze of thousands of information-heavy pages distilled into a single input box. A lot of people get stopped short when presented with too much information - it's daunting. Stuff like this, while super boring and obvious and uncool, totally enables people
- cjonas
This thing is obviously fully vibe coded... Click the "what's coming next" and under the healthcare section the marketing screenshot contains broken images... Like no one ever looked at this before deploying it?
- riskable
I tried to get it to generate code but it says that's forbidden by its system prompt. However, it was happy to recommend Python modules for accessing api.data.gov.