Pentagon and Artificial Intelligence

At a SpaceX facility in South Texas, Pentagon official Hegseth announced the department will deploy Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot — operating alongside Google’s generative AI engine — on both unclassified and classified networks and make "all appropriate data" from military IT systems and intelligence databases available for AI exploitation. The move comes amid global backlash over sexualized non‑consensual deepfakes and bans or investigations in countries including Malaysia, Indonesia and the UK, and contrasts with parts of the Biden administration’s 2024 AI framework that barred certain national‑security uses, while Hegseth framed the rollout as rejecting "woke" and "ideological constraints."