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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I mean we live in the dumbest possible timeline and I still think this sounds stupid as fuck. Imagine what me from 10-15 years ago in the less stupid timeline would have thought reading this.
Truly a clown nation.
10 years ago we were all saying “this shit is getting fucking CRAZY but it will all blow over soon, we’re better than this!”
We were not, in fact, better than this :(