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Pentagon boasts of using AI to write reports mandated by Congress (arstechnica.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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.”

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[–] metermatic26@lemmy.world 24 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You just can’t make this sh*t up…

[–] SnoringEarthworm@sh.itjust.works 19 points 3 weeks ago

But the AI can!

[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 20 points 3 weeks ago

Oh yeah, there's definitely no risks associated with this plan

[–] BottleBoardBakon@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Because of course that's a great idea.

[–] mPony@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

They celebrate people who got rich without doing real work, and without having real expertise. Of course they will crow about using tools that devalue real work and real expertise.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Hey sounds like there's some optimization to the government that can be done right there....

[–] IratePirate@feddit.org 8 points 3 weeks ago

Step 1: Don't put incompetent con men in power...

[–] nosuchanon@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Using AI to write briefs and summaries that no one reads anyway because they vote and pass legislation that is prewritten by lobbyists who underwrite their campaigns.

At this point, this is just a waste of technology and electricity. Might as well skip a few steps and get rid of Congress, they don’t do shit anyway.

[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

If the report writers can't be bothered to put effort into writing the report why should anyone put effort into reading it? Huge waste of time and resources.