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dbvn 24 hours ago [-]
The reports will be just as useless as they were before
PunchyHamster 19 hours ago [-]
We might have some disrepancies leaked just because AI noticed it and nobody redacted it out of output coz nobody read it before sending
Henchman21 20 hours ago [-]
Possibly significantly more honest though.
SoftTalker 23 hours ago [-]
And Congressional staffers will be using AI to summarize the reports, no doubt.
gmerc 19 hours ago [-]
Meaning 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
Ancalagon 20 hours ago [-]
Guess the don’t need that budget increase after all with so much additional efficiency, right?
clickety_clack 22 hours ago [-]
A great way to undermine government would be to get them locked on Lines of Report (LoR) pushed to congress each month.
Georgelemental 22 hours ago [-]
Oh, no, this would be an amazing policy. Almost certainly a better use of their time and resources than whatever horror they would concoct otherwise
1 days ago [-]
dnw 23 hours ago [-]
Similar to Paperwork Reduction Act, we may need Slop Reduction Act.
sidewndr46 12 hours ago [-]
Which would mandate an AI summary be added to each document indicating the amount of AI used to generate it.
FrustratedMonky 1 days ago [-]
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 1 days 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."
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 24 hours ago [-]
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 22 hours ago [-]
Worked fine in The Terminator. Searching the the nasdaq for "Cyberdyne Systems" to add to my portfolio.
mpalmer 22 hours ago [-]
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 21 hours ago [-]
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 19 hours ago [-]
Imagine if we had a federal jobs program for building high speed rail all across the country. sigh
iAMkenough 14 hours ago [-]
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 19 hours ago [-]
How do you think OpenAI is going to become profitable? GovGPT.
BurningFrog 1 days ago [-]
Everyone is starting to use AI. I use three AIs daily. Why would the US military be different?
otikik 24 hours ago [-]
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 23 hours ago [-]
There are a solutions, like Amazon Bedrock, that allow model usage with strict data control.
FrustratedMonky 24 hours ago [-]
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 19 hours ago [-]
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 23 hours ago [-]
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 23 hours ago [-]
A military is usually a big supply chain operation with an attached small war fighting branch
vitally3643 23 hours ago [-]
How many of your tasks decide whether entire populations of human beings live or die?
ok, 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 23 hours ago [-]
In 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 20 hours ago [-]
I read that prediction as being about using AI for mission-critical stuff, which this isn't really.
FrustratedMonky 1 days ago [-]
Not 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 1 days ago [-]
Likely because they said Project 2027 which is something different
FrustratedMonky 1 days ago [-]
Did not realize there was a follow on to Project 2025, called 2027.
lelandfe 1 days ago [-]
evokes something different/doesn't exist
At minimum that link does not describe a project and does not use that Proper Noun
josefritzishere 1 days ago [-]
AI slop reports from lazy, incompetent leaders? I'm shocked!
CGMthrowaway 23 hours ago [-]
Half of those leaders are Democrats. They're not all lazy and incompetent.
steve_adams_86 22 hours ago [-]
Is 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 19 hours ago [-]
I never said which was which.
KetoManx64 18 hours ago [-]
Both parties hate you and your liberties and have happily sold out your and your kids future to eternal debt
tancop 24 hours ago [-]
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htx80nerd 23 hours ago [-]
if any (D) President did the same thing there would be 250 comments talking about how amazing this is. a true step into our future, etc. (R) man bad. everything (R) man does is bad. I know this cuz the Media and Experts tell me!
advisedwang 23 hours ago [-]
You are getting mad at something you made up yourself
defmetrix 1 days ago [-]
I 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.
FatherOfCurses 1 days ago [-]
You're assuming the AI will not be given any instructions to produce the report with a certain data bias.
margalabargala 1 days ago [-]
That only matters to the extent the report is read, though.
creaghpatr 1 days ago [-]
If so, that would be auditable (in theory; whether it would be audited in practice, probably not).
But I am sure future audits will succeed in tracking down all of the prompts used for AI-generated reports. /s
cyanydeez 1 days ago [-]
Me 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.
arjie 23 hours ago [-]
This 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.
advisedwang 23 hours ago [-]
If 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.
pstuart 23 hours 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.
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
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."
From https://comptroller.war.gov/Portals/45/Documents/afr/fy2024/...
They still won’t pass an audit, ever.
Trump supporters are going to really appreciate when the "you're not white" part is dropped.
I presume they might view their internal data being used to train a private company's training sets as a concern.
I'm guessing the vast majority of the AI usage is for things any typical office worker would use it for.
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.
https://ai-2027.com/
<edit> AI-2027, not Project 2027
The only difference now is the slop looks critically better, but there's no quality accounting.
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.
At minimum that link does not describe a project and does not use that Proper Noun
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.
But I am sure future audits will succeed in tracking down all of the prompts used for AI-generated reports. /s
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.
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.