Elon Musk and President Trump’s sweeping new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are working on developing “GSAi“, a custom generative AI chatbot for the US General Services Administration.
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In a new report from WIRED, we’re being told that GSAi is part of the AI-first agenda of President Trump, modernizing the US federal government using advanced AI technology. One of those goals is to boost the day-to-day productivity of GSA’s roughly 12,000 employees, who are tasked with managing office buildings, contracts, and IT infrastructure across the federal government.
SpaceX and Tesla boss Elon Musk and his team hope to use the GSAi chatbot alongside other AI tools to analyze huge amounts of contract and procurement data according to WIRED’s sources, both of which were granted anonymity because they “aren’t authorized to speak publicly about the agency’s operations“.
Thomas Shedd, a former Tesla employee who now runs Technology Transformation Services, the technology arm of the GSA, alluded to the project in a meeting on Wednesday.
WIRED got a hold of an audio recording, where Shedd said: “Another [project] I’m trying to work on is a centralized place for contracts so we can run analysis on them. This is not new at all-this is something that’s been in motion before we started. The thing that’s different is potentially building that whole system in-house and building it very quickly. This goes back to this, ‘How do we understand how the government is spending money?’“
DOGE has been hacking and slashing costs across the US government, with the AI side of DOGE pushing to reduce the federal budget even more, with GSAi hoping to speed up some of this along the way. DOGE members at the Department of Education are reportedly using AI tools to analyze spending and programs, with the US General Services Administration’s upcoming GSAi chatbot project expected to have similar benefits.