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- technology@lemmy.world
The US Department of Defense has a lot of congressionally mandated homework to do every year involving hundreds of required reports on various national security topics. But Pentagon officials have been proudly describing a new shortcut—using generative AI tools to write such reports for Congress.
Pentagon Chief Technology Officer Emil Michael highlighted AI-generated reports to Congress as a key example of how the Department of Defense—stylized as the Department of War under the Trump administration—has adopted generative AI during an event hosted by the Hudson Institute think tank in Washington, DC, on June 12. The Pentagon has made AI tools, starting with Google Cloud’s Gemini for Government, widely available to members of all six military branches through the department’s bespoke GenAI.mil platform since December 2025.
“I have to report to Congress every year on this thing,” Michael said. “Let me load all the papers onto it and have it draft me a congressional report that would otherwise take 200 hours of staffing time and do it in five hours.”
So all these AI companies also have access to all the information in those reports. That sure bodes well.
Those companies are being fed military intelligence to determine which schools to bomb in Iran.
They already have security clearances and multimillion dollar contracts with them, which requires dedicated military hardware in compliant data center.
It’s an issue, but not how you’re suggesting
No, the models get hosted privately in heavily regulated cloud environments or locally in air-gapped infrastructure. However, these people are 100% dumb enough to paste shit into their personal Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini accounts. So you’re probably still correct
If they are reports to congres mandated by law, they are probably public information. They don’t mandate the ones that have the good stuff.
I’m pretty sure Congress gets reports that aren’t public information.