Pentagon boasts of using AI to write reports mandated by Congress
Pentagon boasts of using AI to write reports mandated by Congress
五角大楼吹嘘利用人工智能撰写国会要求的报告
The US Department of Defense has a lot of congressionally mandated homework to do every year involving hundreds of required reports on various national security topics. But Pentagon officials have been proudly describing a new shortcut—using generative AI tools to write such reports for Congress. 美国国防部每年都有大量国会要求的“家庭作业”要做，涉及数百份关于各种国家安全议题的必要报告。但五角大楼官员一直在自豪地描述一种新的捷径——利用生成式人工智能工具为国会撰写这些报告。
Pentagon Chief Technology Officer Emil Michael highlighted AI-generated reports to Congress as a key example of how the Department of Defense—stylized as the Department of War under the Trump administration—has adopted generative AI during an event hosted by the Hudson Institute think tank in Washington, DC, on June 12. The Pentagon has made AI tools, starting with Google Cloud’s Gemini for Government, widely available to members of all six military branches through the department’s bespoke GenAI.mil platform since December 2025. 6月12日，在华盛顿特区哈德逊研究所智库举办的一次活动中，五角大楼首席技术官埃米尔·迈克尔（Emil Michael）强调，向国会提交人工智能生成的报告，是国防部（在特朗普政府下被称为“战争部”）采用生成式人工智能的一个关键案例。自2025年12月起，五角大楼通过其定制的 GenAI.mil 平台，向所有六个军种的成员广泛提供了人工智能工具，首批工具包括谷歌云的“Gemini for Government”。
“I have to report to Congress every year on this thing,” Michael said. “Let me load all the papers onto it and have it draft me a congressional report that would otherwise take 200 hours of staffing time and do it in five hours.” “我每年都要就这件事向国会报告，”迈克尔说。“让我把所有的文件都加载进去，让它为我起草一份国会报告，这本来需要200小时的人力工作时间，现在只需5小时就能完成。”
More evidence of such AI usage came from previous comments by Jacob Glassman, deputy assistant secretary of defense for science and technology foundations at the US Department of Defense, during the Box Federal Summit held in Washington, DC, on April 23. According to DefenseScoop coverage, Glassman described how he told a short-staffed team responsible for delivering a congressionally mandated report to “use GenAI.mil, do the best you can.” The team supposedly came back to Glassman a week later, claiming that the AI-generated report was “the best report we’ve written in the past five years.” As DefenseScoop notes, Glassman did not identify the report in question. 更多关于此类人工智能使用的证据来自美国国防部负责科学与技术基础的副助理部长雅各布·格拉斯曼（Jacob Glassman）此前的评论。在4月23日于华盛顿特区举行的 Box Federal 峰会上，据 DefenseScoop 报道，格拉斯曼描述了他如何告诉一个负责提交国会强制报告但人手不足的团队：“使用 GenAI.mil，尽你们所能去做。”据称，该团队一周后回到格拉斯曼身边，声称这份人工智能生成的报告是“我们过去五年中写得最好的报告”。正如 DefenseScoop 所指出的，格拉斯曼并未说明具体是哪一份报告。
The Department of Defense has long struggled to deliver such reports to Congress efficiently and in a timely manner, especially as the number of mandated reports generally rises with every new defense appropriations bill passed by Congress. The number of reports had soared from just over 500 reports in 2000 to more than 1,400 reports by 2020, according to the US Government Accountability Office. 长期以来，国防部一直难以高效、及时地向国会提交此类报告，尤其是随着国会通过的每一项新的国防拨款法案，强制性报告的数量通常都在增加。根据美国政府问责局的数据，报告数量已从2000年的500多份激增至2020年的1400多份。
Officials at the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs typically have to go through defense authorization statutes “almost line by line” to find the latest reporting requirements, said Elizabeth Field, former senior executive director at the Government Accountability Office, in a Federal News Network interview in 2023. Her GAO report showed how the Pentagon’s painstaking process of identifying the reporting requirements and assigning reports to the appropriate team could take between three and six months—and some of the Congressionally mandated reports are due within a year. 政府问责局前高级执行董事伊丽莎白·菲尔德（Elizabeth Field）在2023年接受联邦新闻网采访时表示，国防部立法事务助理部长办公室的官员通常必须“逐行”审阅国防授权法规，以查找最新的报告要求。她的政府问责局报告显示，五角大楼识别报告要求并将报告分配给相应团队的艰苦过程可能需要三到六个月的时间，而一些国会强制要求的报告必须在一年内完成。
The perils of pushing AI adoption
推动人工智能采用的风险
Given that tedious process, it’s not surprising that the Pentagon’s current leadership may find AI-generated reports to be a tempting shortcut. But other organizations, such as law firms and major consulting firms, have already discovered the many pitfalls of relying on error-ridden AI-generated writing without adequate human vetting and oversight. 鉴于这一繁琐的过程，五角大楼现任领导层认为人工智能生成的报告是一种诱人的捷径也就不足为奇了。但其他组织，如律师事务所和大型咨询公司，已经发现了在没有充分的人工审核和监督的情况下，依赖充满错误的人工智能生成文本所带来的诸多陷阱。
One of the latest cautionary tales involved the multinational consulting giant KPMG publishing a report about AI use in businesses that featured case studies with numerous AI-generated errors and false claims, as revealed by the research group GPTZero and reported by the Financial Times. The revelations led KPMG to pull the report titled “Redefining excellence in the age of agentic AI.” 最近的一个警示案例涉及跨国咨询巨头毕马威（KPMG）发布的一份关于企业人工智能使用的报告，该报告中的案例研究包含大量人工智能生成的错误和虚假声明，正如研究小组 GPTZero 所揭露并经《金融时报》报道的那样。这些披露导致毕马威撤回了题为《在代理人工智能时代重新定义卓越》的报告。
It’s unclear what processes the Pentagon has in place to review the accuracy of its AI-generated reports to Congress. But such reports are a crucial element of congressional oversight intended to hold the US military accountable for how it uses taxpayer dollars—and so any AI-induced errors or mischaracterizations could undermine the accountability mechanism of such reports. This also comes at a time when the Pentagon has requested an unprecedented $1.5 trillion budget for the 2027 fiscal year. 目前尚不清楚五角大楼采取了什么流程来审查其提交给国会的人工智能生成报告的准确性。但此类报告是国会监督的关键要素，旨在让美军对其如何使用纳税人的钱负责——因此，任何由人工智能引起的错误或错误描述都可能破坏此类报告的问责机制。此外，五角大楼刚刚为2027财年申请了史无前例的1.5万亿美元预算。
Members of the US military have also been using generative AI tools to write personnel evaluation reports for non-commissioned officers and commissioned officers, generate commendation medal citations, and create counseling statements, according to a Small Wars Journal article. The number of Department of Defense personnel using commercial AI tools such as Gemini through GenAI.mil has significantly increased from just 80,000 in December 2025 to 1.5 million in June 2026, the Pentagon CTO claimed during his remarks at the Hudson Institute. The Department of Defense has an overall workforce of approximately 3.5 million. 据《小战争杂志》（Small Wars Journal）的一篇文章称，美军成员也一直在使用生成式人工智能工具为士官和军官撰写人事评估报告、生成嘉奖令引文以及创建咨询声明。五角大楼首席技术官在哈德逊研究所的讲话中声称，通过 GenAI.mil 使用 Gemini 等商业人工智能工具的国防部人员数量已从2025年12月的仅8万人大幅增加到2026年6月的150万人。国防部的总员工人数约为350万人。
Google is among multiple US tech companies that signed agreements in 2025 with the US General Services Administration to make their AI tools available across federal government agencies for deeply discounted prices. On May 1, the Department of Defense announced new agreements with “eight of the world’s leading frontier artificial intelligence companies” to deploy more AI tools on classified networks for “lawful operational use.” Those companies include SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, Nvidia, Reflection AI, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and Oracle. 谷歌是2025年与美国总务管理局签署协议的多家美国科技公司之一，旨在以大幅折扣的价格向联邦政府机构提供其人工智能工具。5月1日，国防部宣布与“全球八家领先的前沿人工智能公司”达成新协议，在机密网络上部署更多人工智能工具，以供“合法的作战使用”。这些公司包括 SpaceX、OpenAI、谷歌、英伟达、Reflection AI、微软、亚马逊云科技和甲骨文。
The US government has not divulged how much it is paying the companies under the new contracts. But the list notably excludes Anthropic, which was blacklisted by the Trump administration after the tech company supposedly refused to allow its Claude AI models to be used in an unrestricted manner for autonomous warfare and mass surveillance. 美国政府尚未透露根据新合同向这些公司支付了多少费用。但值得注意的是，该名单排除了 Anthropic 公司。此前，由于该公司据称拒绝允许其 Claude 人工智能模型在不受限制的情况下用于自主战争和大规模监控，它被特朗普政府列入了黑名单。