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Pentagon boasts of using AI to write reports mandated by Congress (1.5mil users)
- FrustratedMonky 4mo agoLiterally on the timeline for AI-2027. https://ai-2027.com/ https://ai-2027.com/ <edit> AI-2027, not Project 2027
- FrustratedMonky 4mo agoNot 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 4mo agoLikely because they said Project 2027 which is something different
- FrustratedMonky 4mo agoDid not realize there was a follow on to Project 2025, called 2027.
- lelandfe 4mo agoevokes something different/doesn't exist At minimum that link does not describe a project and does not use that Proper Noun
- cyanydeez 4mo agook, 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 4mo agoIn AI-2027, there are many stages before superhuman AI. Military dependence on AI was one of them. This dependence creates incentive to do anything to not slow down, including ignoring any safety concerns.
- ameliaquining 4mo agoI read that prediction as being about using AI for mission-critical stuff, which this isn't really.
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- defmetrix 4mo agoI 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.
- cyanydeez 4mo agoMe 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.
- FatherOfCurses 4mo agoYou're assuming the AI will not be given any instructions to produce the report with a certain data bias.
- creaghpatr 4mo agoIf so, that would be auditable (in theory; whether it would be audited in practice, probably not).
- galleywest200 4mo agoHow many audits has the Pentagon failed in recent years?
- warkdarrior 4mo agoIt's true that Pentagon audits failed to account for hundreds of billions of dollars. https://econofact.org/factbrief/has-the-pentagon-failed-its-7th-audit-in-a-row https://econofact.org/factbrief/has-the-pentagon-failed-its-... But I am sure future audits will succeed in tracking down all of the prompts used for AI-generated reports. /s
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- FrustratedMonky 4mo agoThe 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 4mo 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." From https://comptroller.war.gov/Portals/45/Documents/afr/fy2024/1-About_the_DoD_Agency_Financial_Report-DoD_At_A_Glance_Table_of_Contents.pdf https://comptroller.war.gov/Portals/45/Documents/afr/fy2024/...
- tananaev 4mo agoPresumably 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 4mo agoThat'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 4mo agoWorked fine in The Terminator. Searching the the nasdaq for "Cyberdyne Systems" to add to my portfolio.
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- josefritzishere 4mo agoAI slop reports from lazy, incompetent leaders? I'm shocked!
- CGMthrowaway 4mo agoHalf of those leaders are Democrats. They're not all lazy and incompetent.
- steve_adams_86 4mo agoIs the implication that Democrats are less lazy and incompetent? 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.
- CGMthrowaway 4mo agoI never said which was which.
- KetoManx64 4mo agoBoth parties hate you and your liberties and have happily sold out your and your kids future to eternal debt
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- dbvn 4mo agoThe reports will be just as useless as they were before
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- PunchyHamster 4mo agoWe might have some disrepancies leaked just because AI noticed it and nobody redacted it out of output coz nobody read it before sending
- arjie 4mo agoThis 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.
- pstuart 4mo ago> Considering Congress members barely read the bills they’re voting on 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.
- advisedwang 4mo agoIf these reports truly are so bad, the law should be changed to stop requiring them. But, lawmakers aren't choosing to do that. Maybe there's actually some good reasons for them to exist.
- htx80nerd 4mo ago[flagged]
- advisedwang 4mo agoYou are getting mad at something you made up yourself
- htx80nerd 4mo agoobama talked tough about the border repeatedly. including during a state of the union. 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.
- dnw 4mo agoSimilar to Paperwork Reduction Act, we may need Slop Reduction Act.
- sidewndr46 4mo agoWhich would mandate an AI summary be added to each document indicating the amount of AI used to generate it.
- SoftTalker 4mo agoAnd Congressional staffers will be using AI to summarize the reports, no doubt.
- gmerc 4mo agoMeaning the techbros are basically carrying taxpayer money out of the door in buckets. 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
- clickety_clack 4mo agoA great way to undermine government would be to get them locked on Lines of Report (LoR) pushed to congress each month.
- Georgelemental 4mo agoOh, no, this would be an amazing policy. Almost certainly a better use of their time and resources than whatever horror they would concoct otherwise
- Ancalagon 4mo agoGuess the don’t need that budget increase after all with so much additional efficiency, right?
- goldenshale 4mo agoThat'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.
- jfengel 4mo agoThe reports are only as neutral and honest as the prompts given to them. 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.
- lenkite 4mo agoYou mean like the KPMG's AI-written report praising AI that was withdrawn after hallucinated cases studies ? AI Slop Targeting already caused significant civilian casualties in the Hormuz War.