Google to provide Pentagon with AI agents

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https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/10/google-deepens-pentagon-ai-p...

conartist6

Google to help staff the Pentagon with sycophantic incompetent sociopaths! Hooray! Will I be the only one concerned that amplifying bullshit might run contrary to the mission of the national defense

brettkromkamp

So it begins.

SecureVillage27

Sounds sketchy as hell but the article suggests its for unclassified work, like "drafting meeting notes, creating action items, and breaking large projects into step-by-step plans". I think I'd be more annoyed if my government weren't using tools to make BS work more efficient.

reedf1

Pete Hegseth: Hey Google, what are the best bits of Iran to bomb to maximize civilian damage?

elil17

"Don't be evil"

zthrowaway

This should surprise no one. A CIA-backed VC was one of the first investors of Google. Big tech will always serve the powers that be. Employees that think their letters of appeal will do anything live in a fantasy land. That’s not how the real world works.

glimshe

Silicon Valley started with the military... And the military won't ever go away.

Noaidi

If (IF!) the U.S. government is a corrupt authoritarian regime does it matter what services Google was providing? When is the point we see that boycotting these companies that are helping kill, lets say 100 little girls with a tomahawk missiles, is the very least we can do?

1vuio0pswjnm7

"“We’re starting with unclassified because that’s where most of the users are, and then we’ll get to classified and top secret,” Michael said in an interview, adding that talks with Google over using the agents on the classified cloud are underway."

cmiles8

Companies are getting desperate to show AI adoption as right now the numbers just don’t add up. Not surprisingly companies are willing to get into bed with more and more questionable use cases if it helps show some desperately needed AI adoption revenue.

free652

>The DOD’s workforce of more than 3 million people will now be able to use a no-code or low-code tool called Agent Designer to create their own digital assistants for repetitive administrative tasks.

CrzyLngPwd

War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes - Smedley D. Butler ...is as true now as ever.

max_

Hey chat GPT, could you bomb all enemies of the USA. No mistakes, Thanks.

haritha-j

Hegseth: "Hang on, that last bomb was dropped on a girl's school, not a missile launch site!". Gemini: "You're absolutely right! That's my bad. Here's the actual missile launch target."

PetriCasserole

War Games II anyone?

cermicelli

Let's all boycott Google folks, I want all of HN to band together and in solidarity just not use Google for anything... Let's see if anyone here has the guts to even switch away from GCP, scratch that can folks even move away from Apple(Apple pays for Gemini too) and Android? I do think OpenAI deserves the boycott but people talking about Anthropic as they were taking some kind of ethical stand when it was just ego tripping for everyone involved is insane.

simianwords

Everyone’s scared that it would be used for war but how would they break the alignment on llm models? They don’t even allow me to generate black people on AI. How the hell will it work for war related tasks? Or would there be a separate model fine tuned for government that allows being used to kill people?

josefritzishere

Theory: selling half-baked AI options to the government is plan B. It's an alternative to bailing out these financially failing AI companies. This is a delay tactic to prevent a collapse scenario.