‘Use GenAI.mil, do the best you can': Pentagon officials boast of using AI to generate Congress reports
- Pentagon now has to send upwards of 1,400 reports to Congress annually
- GenAI.mil encouraged as a tool to speed up report writing and other productivity
- Workers were uncertain about how to use AI – “so we just blew through that”
Senior Pentagon officials have publicly encouraged employees at the Department of Defense to use its internal generative AI tool, GenAI.mil, to help them get routine, administrative work done more efficiently.
During a recent appearance, Chief Technology Officer Emil Michael referred to the AI-generated reports that Congress has published as a success story, urging Pentagon staff to “use GenAI.mil, do the best you can.”
One example highlighted by Michael was legally required Congress reporting that the Department of Defense must submit. “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...
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