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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[–] 49 points 4 months ago (5 children)

So all these AI companies also have access to all the information in those reports. That sure bodes well.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    Those companies are being fed military intelligence to determine which schools to bomb in Iran.

    They already have security clearances and multimillion dollar contracts with them, which requires dedicated military hardware in compliant data center.

    It's an issue, but not how you're suggesting

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  • [–] 24 points 4 months ago

    No, the models get hosted privately in heavily regulated cloud environments or locally in air-gapped infrastructure. However, these people are 100% dumb enough to paste shit into their personal Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini accounts. So you’re probably still correct

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    If they are reports to congres mandated by law, they are probably public information. They don't mandate the ones that have the good stuff.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I'm pretty sure Congress gets reports that aren't public information.

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  • [–] -2 points 4 months ago

    So this is odd. You felt the need to nitpick what I said, showing a detail orientation skew. But your response shows you didn't read the details of what I said, showing a lack of detail orientation. So what gives, are you detail oriented or not? What drove you to make that comment?

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  • [–] 40 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    JFC. These people are so stupid.

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  • [–] 25 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    well this is the dumbest administration the USA has ever had... so using AI makes a lot of sense for them

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago

    Honestly, this is for the best. It means that when a civil war comes, The Neo Confederates would be relying upon unverified information for everything, and probably selectively ignore the useful parts.

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago

    Trump administration: It's fine to not actually govern as long as we can make it appear so.

    AI: It's fine to not actually produce real work and intelligence as long as we can make it appear so.

    Not exactly surprising they were made for each other.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    So we can reduce the budget then... Right?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    And the penalty for signing some accidental lies and passing it to Congress is what, again?

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    That is not the flex that they think that it is

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  • [–] -2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Seriously, I can't think of a better use for AI. Fuck the stupid politicians who will say and do anything to get elected.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, why would they need information to write laws? Might as well do that based on vibes and outaourxe that to GPT as well.

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  • They don't write the laws. They don't even read them. They have even admitted to this. Some lobbyists writes the laws, and they vote based on how much miney they got from that lobby, and what the polling numbers say people "think" of the law. They don't need information from the Pentagon for any of that. Besides, the mandatory reports are the result of an existing law. So it is more about compliance than about making new laws.

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    [–] 19 points 4 months ago

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

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Because of course that's a great idea.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months 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.

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  • [–] 29 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    You just can’t make this sh*t up…

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago

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

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months 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.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months 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.

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    [–] 23 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child)

    If nobody is gonna read it, why should anybody write it?

    Besides, with this administration, I'd actually expect an unproofed LLM report to be more accurate than anything they would write. Regardless of what the LLM is given to work with. It could be given Musks private stash of Ketamine for all it matters, whatever it hallucinates will be more truthful than what the sycophants come up with.

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    [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    They should be fired for not doing their jobs.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    The question isn't how many people are expected to use it but how reliable the information within these texts are or better how good of an information basis for lawmakers is created this way.

    ,,Reality doesn't change by lying against it."

    Given my current experiences with AI and assuming that Trump II changed many compentent beaurocrats for loyalists the US is up for a bumpy ride.

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