Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is developing an AI chatbot called GSAi for the US government.
Tech insider Wired says this artificial intelligence is for the US General Services Administration (GSA).
It’s an independent government agency that manages federal buildings, IT infrastructure and professional supplies.
The GSAi chatbot will make its 12,000 employees more efficient.
Specifically, the news website Firstpost says it will draft memos and run data analyses on contracts.
As a result, the US government can reduce errors and boost productivity.
Wired obtained an audio of GSA’s Technology Transformation Services (TTS) head Thomas Shedd elaborating on the AI bot.
US President Donald Trump appointed him days after his inauguration.
He emphasized his goal of implementing artificial intelligence and automation throughout the US government.
Shedd claimed the AI project was underway “before we started.”
“The thing that’s different is potentially building that whole in-house and building it very quickly,” he mentioned in the audio.
“This goes back to this, ‘how do we understand how the government is spending money?’”
The US government has been ramping up national AI development due to China’s growing tech influence.
A week ago, China shook the tech industry with its DeepSeek AI chatbot.
Its namesake parent firm allegedly built the tool with only $5.6 million, which pales in comparison to the billions that Western companies spent.
DeepSeek is also an open-source tool that rivals the performance of more popular AI bots like ChatGPT.
More importantly, it sends data to the Chinese government, threatening the data privacy of numerous countries.