‘Use GenAI.mil, do the best you can': Pentagon officials boast of using AI to generate Congress reports

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• 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.