Pentagon boasts of using AI to write reports mandated by Congress
19h 43m ago by sh.itjust.works/u/FoxtrotDeltaTango in technology from arstechnica.com
cross-posted from: https://pawb.social/post/45826210
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.”
You just can’t make this sh*t up…
But the AI can!
Oh yeah, there's definitely no risks associated with this plan
Because of course that's a great idea.
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.
Hey sounds like there's some optimization to the government that can be done right there....
Step 1: Don't put incompetent con men in power...
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.
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.