that it would be partneringwith the US General Services Administration to offer ChatGPT enterprise virtually free of charge for one year to the entire executive branch federal workforce. The dozens agencies that fall under this umbrella include over2 million civil workers. ChatGPT Enterprise will be available to each agency for $1 per year. The trial period will include 60 additional days of ChatGPT’s most advanced models, such as Deep Research and Advanced Voice Mode, with no usage limits. The GSAhad approved OpenAI for the federal AI vendors list.
In the blog post announcing the partnership, OpenAI said: “This effort delivers on a core pillar of the Trump Administration’s AI Action Plan by making powerful AI tools available across the federal government so that workers can spend less time on red tape and paperwork, and more time doing what they came to public service to do: serve the American people.”
Part of the administration’s plan calls for any AI used in the federal government to be free of ideological bias, yet simultaneously President Trump’s“Preventing Woke AI” executive order directs that AI must not favor “ideological dogmas such as DEI.” How OpenAI will deal with the administration’s own ideological slant remains to be seen. The current attempts to create a “maximally truth-seeking AI” have not gone as planned.OpenAI, according toBloombergwill not use federal worker data to train or improve ChatGPT. Josh Gruenbaum, commissioner of GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service, toldBloomberg that no agency will be required to renew their subscription after the first year. “These technologies are changing and evolving at breakneck speed. We don’t want to commit ourselves. This is almost like it’s a trial run in some ways.” The CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, had donated $1 million to President Trump’s inaugural fund in the past.
