A single screenshot, posted by the Pentagon itself to boast about its artificial intelligence rollout, has instead handed critics of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth a fresh line of attack. The image, shared by the Department of War's Chief Technology Office on Monday, showed a Google Gemini interface with a prompt that appeared to read: 'I NEED HELP BUILDING AN AGENT TO CREATE A WAR'.
It was meant to showcase the department's AI Task Force at work in Hawaii. Instead, it triggered confusion, ridicule and renewed questions about how deeply generative AI has been woven into US military operations under Hegseth's watch.
