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FrustratedMonky 1 hours ago [-]
The shocking part of the story is the scale.
1.5 Million Users just within the Pentagon?
"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."
"The number of Department of Defense personnel using commercial AI tools such as Gemini through GenAI.mil has significantly increased from just 80,000 in December 2025 to 1.5 million in June 2026, the Pentagon CTO claimed during his remarks at the Hudson Institute."
not_a_bot_4sho 1 hours ago [-]
"The Department of Defense is the country’s largest
employer, with more than 2.1 million Military Service
members and over 811 thousand civilian employees."
Presumably the whole point of AI is that we can start reducing that number. I am sure there's a significant number of people just working on various administrative tasks processing data and documents.
thatguy0900 16 minutes ago [-]
That's exactly what I want from the Pentagon, less real humans involved and more automated systems that don't even have the concept of morality and the social responsibility to be a potential whistleblower
BurningFrog 30 minutes ago [-]
Everyone is starting to use AI. I use three AIs daily. Why would the US military be different?
FrustratedMonky 22 minutes ago [-]
I think, assume. With the Military, with the goal of killing people, that there is assumption of more human judgment being involved. Beyond even the issue of a man-in-the-loop for targeting systems. But even generally, that these are big decisions that shouldn't be farmed out completely.
ok, first, this isn't superhuman AI; this is slop production at scale. we could do these with markov chains decades ago.
The only difference now is the slop looks critically better, but there's no quality accounting.
FrustratedMonky 1 hours ago [-]
Not sure why the downvote.
Part of AI-2027, one of the early steps, was government dependance on AI for routine jobs. They become dependent on AI, and thus less willing to slow down or put on any guard rails. Because they can't live without it, they keep accelerating.
lelandfe 34 minutes ago [-]
Likely because they said Project 2027 which is something different
FrustratedMonky 30 minutes ago [-]
Did not realize there was a follow on to Project 2025, called 2027.
lelandfe 29 minutes ago [-]
evokes something different/doesn't exist
At minimum that link does not describe a project and does not use that Proper Noun
josefritzishere 41 minutes ago [-]
AI slop reports from lazy, incompetent leaders? I'm shocked!
defmetrix 1 hours ago [-]
I have no problem with this. If the AI has access to the funding and schedule data, it will probably give a more honest answer that the humans. And in reality, nobody in congress is going to take the time to read the report anyways. They will just vote the way they are told.
FatherOfCurses 43 minutes ago [-]
You're assuming the AI will not be given any instructions to produce the report with a certain data bias.
creaghpatr 37 minutes ago [-]
If so, that would be auditable (in theory; whether it would be audited in practice, probably not).
But I am sure future audits will succeed in tracking down all of the prompts used for AI-generated reports. /s
margalabargala 35 minutes ago [-]
That only matters to the extent the report is read, though.
cyanydeez 1 hours ago [-]
Me either, bullshit vs bullshit AI is exactly the same. It's not like this administration was going to produce anything of merit anyway, so why not just go as quickly as possible to the bullshit instead of this 2weeks song and dance.
1.5 Million Users just within the Pentagon?
"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."
"The number of Department of Defense personnel using commercial AI tools such as Gemini through GenAI.mil has significantly increased from just 80,000 in December 2025 to 1.5 million in June 2026, the Pentagon CTO claimed during his remarks at the Hudson Institute."
From https://comptroller.war.gov/Portals/45/Documents/afr/fy2024/...
https://ai-2027.com/
<edit> AI-2027, not Project 2027
The only difference now is the slop looks critically better, but there's no quality accounting.
Part of AI-2027, one of the early steps, was government dependance on AI for routine jobs. They become dependent on AI, and thus less willing to slow down or put on any guard rails. Because they can't live without it, they keep accelerating.
At minimum that link does not describe a project and does not use that Proper Noun
But I am sure future audits will succeed in tracking down all of the prompts used for AI-generated reports. /s