Pentagon also claims 1.5 million personnel are using generative AI tools.

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.”

  • SabinStargem@lemmy.todayEnglish
    2·
    1 hour ago

    Honestly, this is for the best. It means that when a civil war comes, The Neo Confederates would be relying upon unverified information for everything, and probably selectively ignore the useful parts.

  • Kirp123@lemmy.world
    28·
    8 hours ago

    So all these AI companies also have access to all the information in those reports. That sure bodes well.

    • quick_snail@feddit.nl
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      3 hours ago

      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

    • sudochown@programming.dev
      121·
      5 hours ago

      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

    • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      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.

  • NekoKoneko@lemmy.world
    9·
    8 hours ago

    Trump administration: It’s fine to not actually govern as long as we can make it appear so.

    AI: It’s fine to not actually produce real work and intelligence as long as we can make it appear so.

    Not exactly surprising they were made for each other.

  • Jhex@lemmy.world
    20·
    11 hours ago

    well this is the dumbest administration the USA has ever had… so using AI makes a lot of sense for them