The newly launched America.gov chatbot produced a long, surreal response when asked about Minecraft, but the article says it was not an AI malfunction. The text closely reworks Minecraft’s “End Poem”, which players see after completing the game, turning the chatbot’s apparent existential monologue into an intentional Easter egg.

The chatbot was built with help from Google and SpaceXAI and has attracted attempts to test its safeguards. The article does not identify who added the Minecraft reference; it notes that President Donald Trump named programmer Edward Coristine as a lead engineer on the project. It also reports that the chatbot says Joe Biden won the 2020 election, despite Trump’s continued denial of that result.