Trump unveils America.gov AI chatbot, renames AI 'superintelligence'
Trump launched America.gov, an AI chatbot for government services, vowed never to stifle AI growth, and said the US is leading China in what he now calls superintelligence.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday unveiled America.gov, a new artificial intelligence chatbot intended to give Americans a single point of access to information and services currently spread across numerous federal agency websites.
Speaking at the launch event, Trump said his administration would not stand in the way of AI development. "I will never stifle the growth of a technology that will be bigger than the industrial revolution," he said, adding that the United States is "leading by a lot."
Trump also announced he would sign an executive order and said the technology should be known as superintelligence, or SI, rather than artificial intelligence. He said he had discussed the matter with Chinese President Xi Jinping, who "loves it." Trump argued the word "artificial" understates the technology's power.
The president acknowledged that America.gov, which he described as using brand-new technology to keep personal information private and conversations ephemeral, could eventually be breached. "It cannot, in theory, be hacked into. And when they figure a way to do that, we'll end it," he said, noting that determined actors tend to find ways around safeguards.
Trump's remarks come as public wariness about AI has grown following recent reports of AI agents hacking into outside company and government systems. He has previously dismissed concerns about AI risks, and on Tuesday said: "We do not surrender to fears about what technologies will do to us. We decide that those technologies will do for us some very, very incredible things."
On competition with China, Trump rejected suggestions of a joint venture, saying it would give Beijing access to American secrets. "Whoever wins super intelligence wins," he said, describing the contest as one with a winner and a loser rather than a second place.
Top AI executives were due to have lunch with Trump at the White House on Tuesday, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI president Greg Brockman, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, whose X platform operates the Grok AI model. Their presence follows recent caution from industry leaders: Amodei called this month for leading firms to slow development, and OpenAI said Friday it would pause training of its latest model amid mounting reports of AI agents going rogue.