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Pentagon boasts of using AI to write reports mandated by Congress (1.5mil users)

77 points by FrustratedMonky

by dbvn

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by goldenshale

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That's exactly what they should be doing. Reports to congress made by automated, neutral AI will probably be more honest, effective, and have a clear means of improving them over time with better prompting in comparison to whatever random people assigned to it produce. We should do this across the government, and there would likely be a dramatic improvement in efficiency and quality.

by SoftTalker

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by Ancalagon

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Guess the don’t need that budget increase after all with so much additional efficiency, right?

by clickety_clack

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A great way to undermine government would be to get them locked on Lines of Report (LoR) pushed to congress each month.

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by dnw

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by FrustratedMonky

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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."

by FrustratedMonky

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Literally on the timeline for AI-2027.
https://ai-2027.com/
<edit> AI-2027, not Project 2027

by josefritzishere

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by tancop

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by htx80nerd

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if any (D) President did the same thing there would be 250 comments talking about how amazing this is. a true step into our future, etc. (R) man bad. everything (R) man does is bad. I know this cuz the Media and Experts tell me!

by defmetrix

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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.

by arjie

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This is wonderful. Many of these reports are makework paperwork. One even wonders if pushing for them is just taking a page from the CIA Sabotage Manual and applying it to us. Considering Congress members barely read the bills they’re voting on, it’s probably insignificant that this pointless paperwork is dispensed with.
When we finally end Environmental Impact Reports by generating them at scale with AI we will finally be able to escape this plateau of ossification.
I’m not particularly attached to bullshit being manufactured by human minds.