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Elements of White House AI Action Plan Leaked Online Revealing Some Details

By  |  June 17, 2025
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DOGE may have fallen out of the headlines with Elon Musk’s departure from Washington, but it continues to have an impact on government operations. Last week, the General Services Administration (GSA), which is responsible for purchasing goods and services like software for the federal government, appears, unintentionally, to have leaked elements of the Trump administration’s AI Action Plan, including some of the code base and an early version of the website, multiple outlets have now reported.

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    The internal Action Plan is not scheduled to be unveiled until July 22. But the code was discovered on GitHub, with a link to the website, hosted in what appears to be a government staging environment. Both have since been removed, but archived versions of the code and the AI.gov website are still accessible.

    As described in the limited text available on the archived version of the website, the plan consists of three main components. There is an AI assistant chatbot, and “all-in-one API” to connect internal workflows with “top-tier AI models.” The text lists OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic, but the code indicates integrations with Amazon Web Services’ Bedrock and Meta’s LLaMa. Curiously, there is no mention of xAI’s Grok, owned by Musk.

    The third component is something called CONSOLE, which the text describes as a tool “to draw on real-time metrics to see how your team is working with AI and which models they prefer.”

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    The goals of the plan, according to the website are to “Save time while reducing operating costs,” and to “Make smarter decisions, faster – with data.”

    According to the code on GitHub, AI.gov is the work of the Technology Transformation Service (TTS) within GSA, which is headed by Thomas Shedd, a former Tesla employee.

    Shedd has been a key administration figure in pushing for rapid adoption of AI within government operations. In a leaked audio recording of a February meeting with his team obtained by 404 Media, Shedd is heard saying, “We want to start implementing more AI at the agency level and be an example for how other agencies can start leveraging AI… Things like making AI coding agents available for all agencies. One that we’ve been looking at and trying to work on immediately within GSA, but also more broadly, is a centralized place to put contracts so we can run analysis on those contracts.”

    Some current and former government employees, as well as outside experts, have expressed concerns over possible security breaches caused the aggressive approach to AI adoption, including private or confidential data exfiltration.

    “Data security breaches present significant dangers to everyone in the United States, from private citizens to corporations to government agencies to elected officials,” Harvard Kennedy School’s Bruce Schneier testified at a June 5th hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. “Over the past four months, DOGE’s approach to data access has massively exacerbated the risk.”

    According to the archived code, AI.gov is set to launch July 4th, more than two weeks ahead of the scheduled July 22nd unveiling. It was not clear from material that leaked whether that is still the plan, or whether the project could be delayed or altered as a result of the leak.