[FrustratedMonky]

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."

[not_a_bot_4sho]

"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/...

[tananaev]

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]

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]

Worked fine in The Terminator. Searching the the nasdaq for "Cyberdyne Systems" to add to my portfolio.

[mpalmer]

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.

[iAMkenough]

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.

[mynameisbilly]

Imagine if we had a federal jobs program for building high speed rail all across the country. sigh

[iAMkenough]

Instead we have a federal jobs program for infiltrating States without their consent and performing Kavanaugh stops (where the SCOTUS says the government can detain you for DAYS if you're not white and look "suspicious" to an inadequately trained ICE or other federal agent engaged in domestic terrorism).

Trump supporters are going to really appreciate when the "you're not white" part is dropped.

[gmerc]

How do you think OpenAI is going to become profitable? GovGPT.

[BurningFrog]

Everyone is starting to use AI. I use three AIs daily. Why would the US military be different?

[otikik]

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.

[ribosometronome]

There are a solutions, like Amazon Bedrock, that allow model usage with strict data control.

[FrustratedMonky]

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.

[wildzzz]

For every job in the private sector, there's probably someone in the DoD doing the same thing. In 2005, the tooth-to-tail ratio (combat to non-combat roles) was 1:8.1.

I'm guessing the vast majority of the AI usage is for things any typical office worker would use it for.

[BurningFrog]

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]

A military is usually a big supply chain operation with an attached small war fighting branch

[vitally3643]

How many of your tasks decide whether entire populations of human beings live or die?