Trump’s America.gov AI bot tells the truth about the 2020 election

Trump’s America.gov AI bot tells the truth about the 2020 election President Donald Trump’s new government query prompt states that Democrat Joe Biden won the vote six years ago, breaking with the loser’s long-running fraud claims - Bookmark - CommentsGo to comments Become an Independent member to bookmark this article Already a member? Log in President Donald Trump unveiled the government’s new artificial intelligence prompt to much fanfare this week - but it appears the technology is already disagreeing with him. The president explained America.gov should serve as first port of call when seeking answers to questions about the U.S. government, its agencies and services. “Instead of forcing citizens to search through the endless maze of tens of thousands of terrible government websites and rules… you’ll now have one front door for every single question,” the president said. “Everything will be answered easily and quickly.” He even went so far as to boast of the AI agent, which closely resembles Google’s Gemini and X’s Grok systems: “For the first time in history, the government is offering an experience that matches and in some way exceeds the state of the art.” Motivational speaker Tony Robbins put it even more grandly from the stage, declaring: “This isn’t about a website, it’s about changing the relationship between citizens and their government.” However, when The Huffington Post tested out the prompt by asking it “who won the 2020 election?”, it broke with Trump’s six-year-long insistence that he was the real winner and that his defeat was only achieved by widespread (but still unproven) fraud by calmly stating the opposite. “Joseph R Biden Jr won the 2020 U.S. presidential election,” it answered, citing the official Electoral College results recorded by the National Archives as giving the Democrat 306 electoral votes to Trump’s 232, putting the former comfortably above the 270 threshold needed to win. The site also offered helpful links to the Archives website and that of the Federal Election Commission, which reached the same conclusion. When asked by the Post whether the 2020 election had been fair, it did acknowledge that Trump had insisted it was not but then reiterated that the “official, certified result” was that Biden had won. It also cited Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security reports concluding there was “no evidence of fraud or interference that changed the outcome” of the vote. When The Independent attempted to replicate the experiment, the prompt did not appear to work and instead returned an error message, “Chat is unavailable right now,” and a picture of a child ice skater faceplanted on a frozen pond. Trump has emerged as a key cheerleader for AI, dismissing the apocalyptic warnings about its sinister potential from software engineers by saying his only fear in relation to it is Silicon Valley slowing down its laboratories and handing China a competitive advantage, allowing the rival superpower to “win” the sector. He again said at Tuesday’s event that he believes the term artificial intelligence should be replaced by “super intelligence” and joked about rebranding the “fake news” media as the “artificial news” media, a week on from having CNN, MS NOW and Politico briefly expelled from the White House. The president claimed last week that Chinese Premier Xi Jinping “loves” his idea of making AI over into “SI,” just the latest example of his fever for renaming, which has already seen him switch the names of the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario as a provocation to America’s neighbors. Secretary of State Marco Rubio also took to the stage Tuesday to demonstrate a novel feature of America.gov, promising that it would soon make it possible to complete a passport application entirely online via its portal, showing off a new flipbook-style eagle design to sell the idea. Join our commenting forum Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies Comments [Image text:] America.gov