| ▲ | FrustratedMonky 5 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." |
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| ▲ | not_a_bot_4sho 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| "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." From https://comptroller.war.gov/Portals/45/Documents/afr/fy2024/... |
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| ▲ | tananaev 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | 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 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | 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 | | |
| ▲ | jimt1234 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Worked fine in The Terminator. Searching the the nasdaq for "Cyberdyne Systems" to add to my portfolio. |
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| ▲ | iAMkenough an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Hell yeah let’s take the largest employer in the country and significantly eliminate jobs. Great for the economic jobs report and economy as a whole. I’m sure you’ll get a check in the mail with the savings. They still won’t pass an audit, ever. | |
| ▲ | mpalmer 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Unless we're doing away with human accountability, the responsibility to accuracy (and whatever other statutory requirements) will remain the same, it will just be concentrated among significantly fewer federal employees. |
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| ▲ | BurningFrog 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Everyone is starting to use AI. I use three AIs daily. Why would the US military be different? |
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| ▲ | otikik 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Well, you are not the Pentagon. I presume they might view their internal data being used to train a private company's training sets as a concern. | | | |
| ▲ | FrustratedMonky 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | 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. | | |
| ▲ | BurningFrog 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | There are 3 million people working in the US military. 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. | | |
| ▲ | vjvjvjvjghv 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | A military is usually a big supply chain operation with an attached small war fighting branch |
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| ▲ | vitally3643 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | How many of your tasks decide whether entire populations of human beings live or die? |
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