Google is powering a new US military AI platform

The Department of Defense announces its own “custom” AI platform, GenAI.milGoogle Cloud’s Gemini will be the first AI tool available on it. According to a press release.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (who called himself Secretary of War, although that was not the name It was legally changed by Congress) promised that the platform “puts the world’s most powerful frontier AI models directly into the hands of every American warfighter” and will “make our warfighting force more lethal than ever before.” In a video, Hegseth says, “The future of American warfare is here, with AI written all over it.”

In a press release, Google put Use cases that were definitely less aggressive. Google said the new platform can enable tasks like “summarizing policy manuals, creating project-specific compliance checklists, extracting key terms from business data, and creating detailed risk assessments for operational planning.” It said employees can only use the platform for non-confidential work, and that data from it is “never used to train public Google models.” The company has entered into AI-related contracts with the Department of Defense before, including AI-related contracts Controversial project Maven Drone program, and that Back away from the commitment to avoid The use of artificial intelligence for weapons or surveillance systems earlier this year.

The announcement of the tool appears to have come as a surprise to at least one government employee; job on r/army She discussed “this weird new ‘Gen AI’ pop-up on my work computer” and said it “seems really fishy to me.” You can actually visit GenAI.mil On your own, but if you are not connected to a DoD network, you will see a pop-up window stating that you are not authorized to access it.

In a keynote speech on Tuesday, Emil Michael, the Pentagon’s chief technology officer, said the platform will advance other models of artificial intelligence in the future. DefenseScoop Reports.