Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced the rollout of GenAI.mil today in a video posted to X. To hear Hegseth tell it, the website is “the future of American warfare.” In practice, based on what we know so far from press releases and Hegseth’s posturing, GenAI.mil appears to be a custom chatbot interface for Google Gemini that can handle some forms of sensitive—but not classified—data.
Hegseth’s announcement was full of bold pronouncements about the future of killing people. These kinds of pronouncements are typical of the second Trump administration which has said it believes the rush to “win” AI is an existential threat on par with the invention of nuclear weapons during World War II.
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Wow, yeah, just what I’ve always wanted – to live in a lethal country.
Right? That’s really the only metric i even bother with at this point. How many will it kill, and how quickly?
I mean, that’s what it’s always been, and what both parties have consistently campaigning for. Kamala campaigned on having the “most lethal armed forces in the world”.