GenAI.mil saw more than 2 million users in one week, top DOD official says

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The Pentagon's top AI officer also said that “unilateral disarmament is the wrong approach” when it comes to calls for a slowdown in AI development.

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The Pentagon’s enterprise-wide generative artificial intelligence platform is continuing to see high levels of use across the department, with millions of civilians, contractors and military personnel taking advantage of the service.

In a discussion with Punchbowl News on Wednesday, Defense Department Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer Cameron Stanley said “as of last week, we've had over 2 million people in a week across all three models log in and use AI.”

GenAI.mil , which DOD launched in December, currently hosts three AI models: Google Cloud's Gemini for Government, OpenAI’s ChatGPT Mil and xAI’s Grok for Government. The service provides vetted, internal AI tools to help users with unclassified tasks, such as analyzing information and creating and refining documents.

The department employees roughly 3 million total personnel who can access GenAI.mil.

Stanley called the platform “a huge, a huge win for the department,” adding that he initially thought AI use across the Pentagon “was going to be a harder sell.”

“Before GenAI.mil was rolled out, we had a total of maybe 80,000 folks that were using AI across the entire department in similar deployments,” he said. “The first week that GenAI.mil was released last year, we had over 300,000 people log on.”

Stanley said users were also quick to take advantage of Google Gemini for Government’s Agent Designer tool, which was rolled out on the platform in March and allows approved civilians, contractors and military personnel to create custom AI agents that can help them automate rote tasks.

“Within two weeks [of its deployment], we had over 50,000 agents that people are using,” he said. These aren't complex, robust agents; they're helping people with their daily workflows.”

The latest figures continue to show a rising uptick in DOD use of tools available through GenAI.mil . During an event in July, Stanley said the platform had reached a then-record of 1.7 million users, who had created more than 100,000 custom agents.

Wednesday’s discussion about the Pentagon’s uses of AI comes amid growing concerns from some lawmakers and tech executives about the dangers posed by advanced models, as well as how the capabilities will be utilized moving forward. During a speech at the UN on Tuesday, President Donald Trump voiced his continued opposition to slowing AI development, saying “we’re going to encourage it, not rein it in.”

Stanley similarly argued that “unilateral disarmament is the wrong approach.”

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五角大楼最高人工智能官员还表示，对于放缓人工智能发展的呼吁，“单方面裁军是错误的做法”。

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五角大楼的企业级生成式人工智能平台在整个部门内持续得到广泛应用，数百万平民、承包商和军事人员都在使用这项服务。

周三，国防部首席数字和人工智能官卡梅伦·斯坦利在接受 Punchbowl News 采访时表示：“截至上周，我们所有三个模型的一周内已有超过 200 万人登录并使用人工智能。”

美国国防部于去年12月推出的GenAI.mil目前托管着三个人工智能模型：谷歌云的Gemini for Government、OpenAI的ChatGPT Mil和xAI的Grok for Government。该服务提供经过审核的内部人工智能工具，帮助用户处理非机密任务，例如分析信息、创建和完善文档。

该部门共有约 300 万名员工可以访问 GenAI.mil。

斯坦利称该平台“对国防部来说是一次巨大的胜利”，并补充说，他最初认为在五角大楼推广人工智能“会更难”。

他说：“在GenAI.mil推出之前，我们整个部门可能只有8万人以类似的方式使用人工智能。去年GenAI.mil发布的第一周，就有超过30万人登录。”

斯坦利表示，用户们也很快利用了 Google Gemini for Government 的 Agent Designer 工具。该工具于 3 月份在该平台上推出，允许经批准的平民、承包商和军事人员创建自定义 AI 代理，以帮助他们自动执行重复性任务。

他说：“部署两周内，我们就有了超过5万个正在使用的客服人员。这些客服人员功能并不复杂强大，它们只是帮助人们处理日常工作流程。”

最新数据显示，美国国防部对GenAI.mil平台工具的使用量持续上升。斯坦利在7月份的一次活动中表示，该平台的用户数量已达到创纪录的170万，这些用户创建了超过10万个自定义代理。

周三关于五角大楼使用人工智能的讨论正值一些议员和科技公司高管日益担忧先进模型带来的危险，以及这些能力未来将如何被利用之际。周二，唐纳德·特朗普总统在联合国发表讲话时，再次表达了他反对放缓人工智能发展的立场，称“我们将鼓励它，而不是限制它”。

斯坦利也同样认为“单方面裁军是错误的做法”。

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