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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Ok, but they won’t be large language models
No, but the term Artificial Intelligence will be accepted, so when they start veering into SciFi territory, nobody will blink an eye.
Ok so I repeat my initial comment that an LLM will never do those things.
And I’ll repeat that they know that, but most people don’t. The point is to normalize the concept now, so that when it gets to the point of being exploitive, we won’t be paying attention. That’s why they are wrongly designating this current computer revolution (I’ve lived through many) AI, because it’s all part of a larger plan to introduce real AI someday.
What we have today isn’t true AI, but it’s on the path, and getting close enough that true AI experts are sounding alarms a bit, and cautioning about overreach. We are in the marketing stage where they are convincing you that you have bad breath, so they can introduce a mouth wash oroduct to solve the problem that they just convinced you that you have.