Report: How to make government websites AI friendly
ByKaitlyn Levinson,
Reporter, Route Fifty
October 19, 2026 04:54 PM ET
As residents’ use of AI to find government information grows, a new report from the Beeck Center offers recommendations for officials to ensure their content doesn’t get excluded from outputs.
Artificial intelligence is altering how constituents interact with their governments and services, as the technology is increasingly woven into benefits administration, public transportation and, now, website navigation, according to a new report. This presents an opportunity for governments to revise their public websites to ensure they remain a relevant source among artificial intelligence-enabled searches.
“As more residents turn to AI assistants instead of visiting a government website directly, their ability to find the right answer increasingly depends on if that assistant can actually reach — and correctly interpret — government content,” a new reportreleased last week from Georgetown University’s Beeck Center for Social...
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