This is the most useful minute of coverage I’ve seen, because she actually tried it. For now America.gov is a search engine that writes its answer in sentences and links you to the pages it pulled from. It doesn’t file anything for you yet. You still take the steps yourself.
That’s not nothing. Half of what I do at a reference desk is know which of a dozen agency pages is the right one, and a tool that reads all 29,000 sites could do that part well. What to teach people: open the sources it links, check the date on the page, and don’t treat a confident paragraph as a decision from the agency.
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- 0:00>> Well, Weego, this new tool is live. I
- 0:02checked it. Uh the president compared it kind of to using uh other AI tools
- 0:07already out there like ChatGPT or Claude. And it does kind of act like
- 0:12that. He used some examples of if you needed to change your name after
- 0:15marriage or if you are a senior citizen
- 0:18trying to compare uh Medicare plans or a veteran uh getting services, you
- 0:24basically type in your question. What I noticed when I tried to give it a prompt
- 0:28is it just compiles the research uh like one of those other AI tools does. You
- 0:34still have to actually do the work and cross-check uh and, you know, do the
- 0:39actual act yourself. But it helps you compile the steps essentially. Uh the
