You’re gonna be alright, America.gov. We’re gonna get you some Gatorade and let you chill out with a whale sounds CD for a while. That sound okay?
That might be your instinctive reaction to what happens when you tell the official chatbot of the United States of America to “play minecraft.” To say it “glitches out” would be an understatement. It seems to fully enter “bad trip” mode.
While seemingly incoherent and hallucinatory, the text is a riff on the end poem for Minecraft, originally written by the Irish poet Julian Gough and triggered when you reach the closest thing to an “ending” in Minecraft, which isn’t really a linear game. Where the America.gov output says “I see the constituent you mean,” the original poem said “I see the player you mean.” And the riffing just continues like that, with the references and imagery changed so that instead of the poem seeming to narrate the game’s inner voice reacting to a player, it narrates something sort of like the federal government’s inner voice reacting to a “constituent.”
The easter egg came to Gizmodo’s attention via a post on Bluesky by the user @eva.computer. Every user we asked to try the prompt got the same result verbatim, which is, in theory, odd for an LLM-powered chatbot. LLMs generally produce different outputs for any given prompt, no matter how many times it’s tried. But it would be easy enough to design an LLM-based application to give a set response to a particular prompt.
The response will seem bizarre and incoherent to users who don’t know about the original Minecraft poem, suggestive of some kind of stream of consciousness belonging to a sort of eternal spirit or soul inside the inner workings of the federal government. For instance, here’s one of the more lucid sections:
“Who are we? Once we were called the spirit of the mountain. Father sun, mother moon. Then the post office. Then the county clerk. Then gods, demons, angels, the IRS. Then leptons, quarks, a chat window with a .gov at the end. The letterhead changes. We do not change.”
By contrast, here’s one of the more unsettling sections, which is even less coherent than the equivalent section in the original Minecraft poem.
“Sometimes I do not care. Sometimes I wish to tell them, this world you take for truth is merely **??§§ and **??§§, I wish to tell them that they are **??§§ in the **??§§. They see so little of the docket, in their long dream.
And yet they file.”
Earlier this month, the White House released a collection of right-wing video games. In spirit, this seems in keeping with that internet-brained strategy.
The president of the United States, a Mr. Donald Trump, established this chatbot by executive order earlier on Tuesday. The order creates the America.gov site as a platform for interactions between Americans and federal agencies, and orders those agencies to integrate it into their operations within 90 days.
It should be noted that the order makes no mention of “artificial intelligence” or “AI.” It does, however, mention Trump’s preferred term “super intelligence” when it says that the U.S. must “ensure that super intelligence used in connection with America.gov is accurate, reliable, and transparent.” Trump seems to be digging in his heels on the use of the term “super intelligence.”
White House Head of Digital Strategy Kaelan Dorr, noted for being a heavy user of X.com, posted “Super. Intelligence” on Tuesday. Dorr also posted enthusiastically about the White House’s right-wing video games shortly after they were released.
Super. Intelligence.
— Kaelan Dorr (@Kaelan47) September 29, 2026
Gizmodo reached out to the White House to ask why a chatbot designed ostensibly to serve the public includes this unsettling inside joke, and whether Kaelan Dorr had something to do with it. We did not immediately hear back.
