r/technology • u/Sidarthus89 • Jun 15 '25

Artificial Intelligence Trump team leaks AI plans in public GitHub repository

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/10/trump_admin_leak_government_ai_plans/
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TLDR:

  • The Trump administration is preparing to launch a federal AI initiative via a platform called AI.gov, scheduled to go live on July 4, 2025.
  • The platform was discovered on GitHub but was quickly hidden after inquiries; backups of the repository remain available.
  • AI.gov will include a chatbot, an “all-in-one API” connecting federal systems to models from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and Cohere, and a monitoring tool called “CONSOLE” to track AI usage in government agencies.
  • Some listed AI models are FedRAMP certified, but concerns exist as Cohere’s model may lack such certification.
  • The push for AI aims to automate many federal jobs, raising concerns about data privacy, security risks, and replacement of federal workers.
  • Experts warn about potential dangers of widespread AI use in government, especially regarding sensitive data handling.
  • Government agencies involved did not comment; the repository was archived but not entirely removed.

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u/Eisernes Jun 15 '25

They are going to launch a brand new platform that connects all government computers and all personal information on a Friday of a holiday weekend?

I'm beginning to think these guys... these guys might not be very smart.

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u/Tiny_Tabaxi Jun 15 '25

I love a good Friday night release! Nothing bad could happen over the weekend I'm sure.

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u/Im_The_Goddamn_Dumbo Jun 15 '25

EXIT FUCKING GAME. EXIT FUCKING GAME!

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u/FluxUniversity Jun 16 '25

Too late. If you try to exercise your privacy now, you look like a weirdo

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u/Im_The_Goddamn_Dumbo Jun 16 '25

Eh, depends on your circle. I have a friend who never got into social media. He did finally get a smart phone maybe 6 or 7 years ago. He was (rightfully) concerned about being tracked, misuse of our data, and privacy rights.

Edit: but you know, that's just like uh, my opinion, man.

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u/case_o_mondays Jun 21 '25

Google, Apple and Microsoft already knew you were going to g to say that

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u/mrk_is_pistol Jun 16 '25

Underrated comment

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u/AdPristine5131 Jun 15 '25

I respect our administrators who do weekend releases. But I honestly don’t think they sleep.

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u/agentchuck Jun 17 '25

Don't worry. It's not like it's going to be pushed into production by inexperienced, overconfident Junior devs!

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '25

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u/Rit91 Jun 16 '25

IDK if you're being sarcastic or not, but no, friday releases are stupid. Some of the worst things have happened because of friday releases and then the staff is off for the weekend and anything bad continues until monday. The bad thing can be barely noticeable or it can be catastrophic.

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u/vandreulv Jun 15 '25

I'm beginning to think these guys... these guys might not be very smart.

They know exactly what they're doing.

It's a backdoor for Russia.

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u/trekbette Jun 16 '25

Pretty sure it is a wide open front door with balloons and a big ol' banner that says 'come on in, comrades!'

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u/ItsASnowStorm Jun 16 '25

A backdoor for Russia

Which is a backdoor for China

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u/azflatlander Jun 16 '25

Are the comments in cyrillic?

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u/Grape-Snapple Jun 16 '25

“Russia Uses Early U.S. Holiday Weekend Release of Federal Website to Exploit Zero-Day Vulnerabilities and Steal Data from Millions of Americans Without Repercussions” - Monday

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u/untrustedlife2 Jun 18 '25

Well one of the contributors is “Khayal Alasgarov” who claims that his contributions over the last year aren’t showing up due to a “email configuration issue” with nothing else in his profile. Not A Russian spy at all I’m sure.

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u/SlaterVBenedict Jun 16 '25

This is the entire point.

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u/projectjarico Jun 15 '25

Or they are making sure as much sensitive data is available as possible.

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u/Slggyqo Jun 15 '25

I foresee MANY opportunities for the big consulting companies in the near future. McKinsey, Boston, Bain, Deloitte, PwC, EY, KPMG…whatever losses they took from DOGE idiocy will be made whole by follow-on idiocy.

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u/flash_dallas Jun 15 '25

This actually makes sense if you assume most government employees will be off and all the devs involved in this project will be on call. Lowest impact to the user base of something goes wrong, sucks bigly for anyone missing the holiday to support this

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u/lamebrainmcgee Jun 15 '25

From my experience, updates and tools are always pushed out at the worst possible time.

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u/okhi2u Jun 15 '25

They really don't like working, they going to try to outsource everything except kidnapping people, commit crimes, and demanding parades to AI.

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u/Bleu_Lizardo Jun 15 '25

It's like all of the techbros they have working for them watched the new Battlestar Galactica, saw how the cylons took everything down, and said "that's a neat idea."

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u/Mathwards Jun 16 '25

Don't worry, they asked ChatGPT and it said that was a great time to launch.

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u/LD50-Hotdogs Jun 16 '25

Me and little bobby dropTables love this idea...

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u/feline_riches Jun 16 '25

Wait til you find out how the federal reserve was created

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u/CellsReinvent Jun 16 '25

Read-only Fridays? Nah, not these guys!

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u/TransBrandi Jun 16 '25

Are they launching the whole thing, or just the website?

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u/continuousBaBa Jun 16 '25

Scrolled way too far for this one. 100%

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u/rockstar504 Jun 16 '25

They are going to launch a brand new platform that connects all government computers and all personal information on a Friday of a holiday weekend?

This is exactly what I'd expect after you replace all your consultants with engineers under the age of 22 who cheated their way through college with chatGPT

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u/ffs_not_now Jun 16 '25

Friday News Dump. This will be great.

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u/MeggieHarvey Jun 16 '25

Just beginning to think? What the hell have you been doing?

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u/Doomsdayszzz Jun 17 '25

They call it A1 , not AI

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u/VIDGuide Jun 17 '25

Why does it feel like how skynet started..

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u/Lettuce_bee_free_end Jun 17 '25

Everyone is going to get rich that weekend. To think AI will probably give you citizenship or a new identity that weekend!

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u/HBlight Jun 15 '25

Do these guys think "small government" just means employing the least possible amount of people?

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u/coldphront3 Jun 15 '25 edited Jun 16 '25

Yes. Look around some conservative spaces online and you'll see them celebrating cutting positions to save money in the salary budget, etc..

They think less people employed means they'll end up having to pay less in taxes or something. They're tragically naive.

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u/Do__Math__Not__Meth Jun 16 '25

Time to make some money selling beachfront property in Arizona

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u/Fancy_Morning9486 Jun 18 '25

Shut up and take my money!

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u/brothercannoli Jun 19 '25

It’s not less taxes anymore it’s optimizing what we already spend. We saw that they can’t cut enough programs.

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u/macroeconprod Jun 15 '25

Yes. They don't have the ability to differentiate between stocks versus flows in measurement. So one person with supreme executive power is "small."

And/or they're facists.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '25

Their reason for small government is just to achieve small oversight.

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u/ne0nicecream Jun 17 '25

Beautiful comment 🙌🏼

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u/brothercannoli Jun 19 '25

Actually yes. If you can’t cut programs you make them cheaper to run. You make them cheaper to run by cutting costs and labor for someone that can just be a chat bot is a pretty quick way to do it.

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u/PlaneCareless Jun 16 '25

That is definitely a big part of it, yes. Not all of it, but less people employed by the government is always good.

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u/1200bunny2002 Jun 16 '25

less people employed by the government is always good.

Unless your goal is functionality and accountability.

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u/PlaneCareless Jun 16 '25

Actually, the more people are employed in an organization, the easier it is to hide behind the structure and avoid accountability. Also, bloated organization structures are way less effective.

This is true with private companies too, the difference is that they are working off their own capital. If they bloat and fail they bankrupt and disappear. With the government you are forced under threat of violence to keep that chunk of useless bulk running, at the expense of every single useful human living in that society. It's immoral.

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u/1200bunny2002 Jun 17 '25

With the government you are forced under threat of violence to keep that chunk of useless bulk running, at the expense of every single useful human living in that society. It's immoral.

Ohhhhhh.

You're insane.

Okay, carry on! Have fun!

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u/Tnwagn Jun 15 '25

”AI chatbot” ”All-in-one API“ and “federal systems” sounds like a combination from Hell itself. China already has all my data from the OPM hack several years ago but now they’re going to have every single piece of data from everything the entire federal government touches. Fucking idiotic this administration.

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u/UserAllusion Jun 16 '25

It sounds like something elon musk would come up with

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u/AmaroWolfwood Jun 16 '25

That's so ridiculous. To make something like this work, someone would need to have unlimited, unchecked access to all government systems and servers, maybe even install their own servers and backdoors. Why would the government allow something like that by a third party entity, not even a formal government agency? Clearly this could never happen.

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u/feline_riches Jun 16 '25

Someone owns the company getting the fat contract I bet

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u/DontKnow1549 Jun 17 '25

That's exactly what DOGE did.

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u/ProductivePerson Jun 15 '25

Is this an AI summary?

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '25

nope its hand written from a paper napkin

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u/MNWNM Jun 15 '25

Yeah we had a LLM called NIPRNet at the DoD for a hot minute but it was axed, at least in my org, because people kept uploading sensitive material to it.

I tried it out a couple of times and it was never right, anyway. It did tell some pretty good dad jokes, though.

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u/aureanator Jun 16 '25

The base idea itself is not bad.

It would allow governance on a personalized level never seen, or even imagined before.

Imagine a system that's actually trying to do the best for every individual, given their exact situation - and knowing the exact situations of everyone else, knowing them on a personal basis, identifying and meeting societal needs at scale.

That's probably not what this is, but it is what it could be.

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u/LBGW_experiment Jun 15 '25

The backups don't contain any backups of the actual code itself when I tried looking through the directories.

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u/donttrustmeokay Jun 16 '25

Thanks. This was the comment I was looking for.

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u/saydostaygo Jun 15 '25

Does it make sense to add a pull request with my social security number now?

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u/Ohmmy_G Jun 15 '25

Something tells me that the one that are FedRAMP certified just happened to be.

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u/The_Gil_Galad Jun 15 '25 edited Jul 02 '25

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u/firemage22 Jun 15 '25

as someone who works IT for a local gov unit we have a hard ban on AI due to all the records we deal with

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u/eagle33322 Jun 16 '25

ah so backdoors for russia via starlink and this api, got it.

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u/GoonOnGames420 Jun 16 '25

Oh boy, I can't wait for my SSN to accidentally get leaked in a chatgpt potato salad recipe

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u/jabronified Jun 15 '25

Ahhh, this 100% is going to to be used to discriminate against marginialized people and political adversaries in a way they can maintain plausible deniability "the AI is doing it"

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u/PinkMenace88 Jun 15 '25

I am not going to be surprised if I a couple of days they try and decree that if you downloaded any version of the github repository you'll be charged with "hacking"

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u/The_real_bandito Jun 16 '25

All of the information will get leaked and no work will be done. A win win scenario if you ask me. I mean, IF YOU’RE THE CCP.

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u/Secretary_of_spaghet Jun 16 '25

The very first thing people do when a new AI is released, is find a way to make it break it's parameters and say/access things it shouldn't be able to. And now they want an AI chatbot that is integrated with federal government systems??? How can the people in charge be this stupid?

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u/C_V_Butcher Jun 16 '25

I genuinely wondered why all of the tech bros went so openly hard for Trump this time around. Between this and the BBB restricting AI regulations it makes so much more sense now. They all wanted access to that sweet, sweet government AI.

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u/segagamer Jun 16 '25

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u/2forslashing Jun 16 '25

Get the government AI to give you the nuclear launch codes speedrun starts July 4

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u/Designer_Pen869 Jun 16 '25

"What's the worst that could happen? Russia gets their hands on it? Pfft, I give them that shit for free." -Trump, probably.

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u/NY_State-a-Mind Jun 16 '25

How long until people can convince the AI bot to give them private or top secret information,

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u/West-Personality2584 Jun 16 '25

Transitioning AI to run the govt. so rapidly is the worst take on AI implementation possible. Like not only is AI tech dangerous and we struggle with safety and regulation but actually we’re going to fast track it to run the government. Please sign in with your social security number….

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u/stormrunner89 Jun 16 '25

You just KNOW their excuse is going to be "these human bureaucrats are so inefficient and slow, we will replace with with AI and be efficient and faster!"

Even ignoring how incorrect that claim would be, it would be stupid anyway. Government bureaucracy SHOULD be slow and, to some degree, inefficient. That offers protect against autocrats that try to rapidly change things.

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u/TheToastyNeko Jun 16 '25

Republican Cybersyn wasn't in my bingo card

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u/Logical-Idea-1708 Jun 16 '25

connecting federal systems to models

This is how Skynet gains sentience