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▲Pentagon boasts of using AI to write reports mandated by Congress (1.5mil users) (<a href="http://arstechnica.com" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">arstechnica.com)
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Happened at US aid too. Cut vaccine and food budgets and gave them billions in AI money to shovel into Grok and ChatGPT.
It’s all a massive heist
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/...
They still won’t pass an audit, ever.
Trump supporters are going to really appreciate when the "you're not white" part is dropped.
I presume they might view their internal data being used to train a private company's training sets as a concern.
I'm guessing the vast majority of the AI usage is for things any typical office worker would use it for.
Very few of them ever come close to killing anyone.
Mostly they're white collar workers doing regular desk jobs, where AI is just as useful as in other industries.
If you want the reports to be honest, then the Congress would write the prompt. If the Pentagon writes the prompts, then it can keep re-asking the question until it finds a spin that it likes.
AI Slop Targeting already caused significant civilian casualties in the Hormuz War.
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
Republicans haven't been lazy at all in their efforts to run the USA in my opinion. Democrats seem to have failed to match their energy. They've also failed to be competent enough to match their game.
I'm not a fan of the Republican party and I never have been, but I'm not impressed by the Democrats either. From here in Canada it all looks like a chaotic mess, rife with corruption on both sides of the aisle.
I don't understand the distinction here.
obama deported tons of people.
obama did the 'kids in cages' thing.
do you recall any protest? mass media outrage about fascism and racism?
hillary, bernie, etc, all talked tough about immigration back in the day. no one cared.
But I am sure future audits will succeed in tracking down all of the prompts used for AI-generated reports. /s
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.
That seems like a good opportunity for AI to be used as a summary.
And on other fun note, in many cases Congress does not even write the bill, their patrons do and have them pretend to represent it.