Pentagon says its new military AI platform with Google's Gemini will make US forces "more lethal"

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A hot potato: When it comes to AI, Google has left its "do no harm" stance firmly in the past. The Pentagon has just announced GenAI.mil, a generative AI platform that will offer Google Cloud's Gemini as its first available AI tool. Secretary of Defense/War Pete Hegseth said that the platform will make "our fighting force more lethal than ever before."

"The future of American warfare is here, and it's spelled AI," Hegseth said. "As technologies advance, so do our adversaries. But here at the War Department, we are not sitting idly by."

The secretary added that the Pentagon will continue to "aggressively field the world's best technology to make our fighting force more lethal than ever before."

Today, we are unleashing https://t.co/NzcgVsCcI2

This platform puts the worlds most powerful frontier AI models directly into the hands of every American warrior.

We will continue to aggressively field the world's best technology to make our fighting force more lethal than ever… pic.twitter.com/jqAhN32zjQ

– Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (@SecWar) December 9, 2025

Google's press release focuses on the less-lethal capabilities of Gemini for Government, such as enabling Google-quality enterprise search, summarizing policy handbooks, generating checklists, and creating risk assessments for operational planning.

Google emphasized that the platform can only be used for unclassified work, and that the data will not be used to train Google's public models.

Pentagon Chief Technology Officer Emi Michal said that the GenAI.mil platform will offer other AI models in the future. This year has seen other big AI players, including xAI, OpenAI, Anthropic and Scale AI, sign contracts with the Pentagon.

In February, Google removed a key passage from its AI principles that previously committed to avoiding the use of AI in potentially harmful applications, opening the door for military applications.

This isn't Google's first defense contract. In 2018, the tech giant worked with the agency on Project Maven, which was primarily focused on using machine learning and AI to identify vehicles and other objects in drone footage in order to reduce the workload for human analysts. It led to over 3,100 employees signing a letter opposing Google's involvement in the program.

In July 2025, Google was awarded a $200 million contract to support the DoD's Artificial Intelligence Office to deploy its frontier AI tools and cloud infrastructure.

The use of AI for military or similar purposes has long been a contentious issue. OpenAI, for example, has teamed up with Oculus founder Palmer Luckey's Anduril defense firm to deploy advanced artificial intelligence solutions for national security missions.

Earlier this week, Luckey said that AI should be allowed to decide who lives and dies when the technology is deployed on the battlefield. Luckey said he believes that the important thing is to be as effective as possible, "So, to me, there's no moral high ground in using inferior technology."

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Pentagon says its new military AI platform with Google's Gemini will make US forces "more lethal"

 

[OortCloud]

Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth and Google in charge of the military - what a world - god help us all.

 

[GeoffreyA]

"In February, Google removed a key passage from its AI principles that previously committed to avoiding the use of AI in potentially harmful applications, opening the door for military applications."

What is the use of a document of principles if, when one's motives are in tension with them, they are altered? Just throw the bloody document in the bin. Your days of "Don't be evil" are long gone, if indeed they were anything more than lip service.

Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth and Google in charge of the military - what a world - god help us all.

Posterity is going to look back on our time and wonder.

 

[stewi0001]

All fishing boats are doomed

 

[Str8Shot]

"In February, Google removed a key passage from its AI principles that previously committed to avoiding the use of AI in potentially harmful applications, opening the door for military applications."

What is the use of a document of principles if, when one's motives are in tension with them, they are altered? Just throw the bloody document in the bin. Your days of "Don't be evil" are long gone, if indeed they were anything more than lip service.



Posterity is going to look back on our time and wonder.

Human nature, is to dominate one over the other. In the case of the rabid Zionists in power, death and destruction is their always their bid. Consider Palestine, Yemen, and many others…

 

[Hexic]

All fishing boats are doomed

The ones ran by cartels, filled with drugs? Yep. Every single one.

 

[stewi0001]

The ones ran by cartels, filled with drugs? Yep. Every single one.

good luck getting AI to tell them apart

 

[Anton Longshot]

Right now I'm watching the AI documentary Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning.
Things don't look good for us to put it mildly.

On a more serious note...I don't understand why people fall for Big Tech's "AI will make everything better" schtick. I've seen zero proof that Big Tech is right. I for one do my best to either avoid AI or remove it, succesfully so far.

 

[Hexic]

good luck getting AI to tell them apart

That’s why we have this magical thing called intelligence gathering.

Do you seriously think that Trump is targeting random fishing boats off of our coast and haphazardly firing at them, with absolutely zero idea if they are a risk to us?

That’s not how the military works.

 

[Theinsanegamer]

That’s why we have this magical thing called intelligence gathering.

Do you seriously think that Trump is targeting random fishing boats off of our coast and haphazardly firing at them, with absolutely zero idea if they are a risk to us?

That’s not how the military works.

Yes, some people do literally think that. They think Trump is some kind of god-emperor whom has personal control of every member of the military like they were drones and also directly controls businesses and lawmakers nationwide.

It's crazy. Back in my day, the people who thought of Bush or Clinton like that were regarded as loons.

 

[pnntmp]

Great news!
Every tech company should work with the military.

There were plenty of woke id1ots in Google, it's good to know they're ignored and can no longer mess with what's none of their business.

 

[GeoffreyA]

Right now I'm watching the AI documentary Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning.
Things don't look good for us to put it mildly.

On a more serious note...I don't understand why people fall for Big Tech's "AI will make everything better" schtick. I've seen zero proof that Big Tech is right. I for one do my best to either avoid AI or remove it, succesfully so far.

Indeed, the sci-fi genre has lots of these AI documentaries!

Even before the AI of today, whatever Big Tech said had a considerable marketing effect on the masses, and it sometimes took a great deal of effort to see through the hogwash. So it's no surprise that, with AI, it has ramped up x10.

 

[BogdanR]

And now China will get Nvidia chips. Hooray!!!
As always China wins without firing a single shot and when they will eventually fire, their targeting/ guidance systems will have profited from the very best US tech.

 

[NumberNine]

I'm just glad to see Google finally complete their transformation. They've been looking to get involved in death dealing for a while now as they slowly and methodically distanced themselves from anything resembling ethical humanism.

 

[acrossthestars]

Secretary of Defense/War Pete Hegseth said that the platform will make "our fighting force more lethal than ever before."

This timeline sucks. Can I get a refund?

 

[James321]

LOL, like really do these fools actually fall for crap like this.

Military has become so gullible?

 

[LimyG]

Pete Hegseth is simply not qualified for such a position. He's a preening prixxk.
But he says thing Trump likes, and that's all the counts. Even in the critical "War ministry," or whatever *****ic name change.

Gulf of America. I like Americans, but your leaders are making the USA some what of a laughing stock. Politically. In fact it's pathetic that the biggest economy, with the most important military is becoming a joke. 3 more years. God help us. I mean "Us," the entire Western and democratic countries from France to Japan.

The world needs the USA. It doesn't need the current contradictory, vindictive and childish bunch of *****s running it.

Not to mention congress is becoming irrelevant. All afraid of Donald Duck, Well except for a few women. Margery Tailor Green. Now that is amazing. I view here in a different light now.

She does actually made sense since she broke off from here ***** boss, and called the "men of House of Reps, weak." She's right from my point. Come on America. We need you back!!