AI in December (2025)
Written by Emily Wolfteich
Senior Industry Analyst
The House AI Task Force released its first bipartisan report.
The report’s key recommendations focus on seven specific areas:
- Identifying AI issue novelty
- Promoting AI innovation
- Protecting against AI risks and harms
- Empowering government with AI
- Affirming the use of a sector-specific regulatory structure
- Taking an incremental approach
- Keeping humans at the center of AI policy discussions.
DHS launched an internal chatbot to support its workforce.
The AI-powered tool, known as DHSChat, was internally developed using underlying software similar to commercially available tools like ChatGPT, and operates in a closed environment to leverage non-public data. Director of DHS AI Corps wrote in a blog post that DHSChat will help its 19,000 employees in “summarizing complex documents and reports, generating computer code, and streamlining repetitive tasks like data entry.”
The White House released its annual inventory of over 1,700 AI use cases in the federal government.
The list, which is mandated by a 2020 Trump-era executive order, consolidates individual agency AI use cases, and has more than doubled from the 710 reported last year. The repositories include current use cases as well as those that are both upcoming and retired. This is also the first year that OMB has released the inventory on the code repository GitHub, allowing for improved cross-collaboration.
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