Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is very excited to roll out his new AI tool because it is “the future of American warfare” and will somehow “make our fighting force more lethal than ever before.”

No, really. Here’s the official press release:

"There is no prize for second place in the global race for AI dominance. We are moving rapidly to deploy powerful AI capabilities like Gemini for Government directly to our workforce. AI is America's next Manifest Destiny, and we're ensuring that we dominate this new frontier."

This glob of nonsense comes from Emil Michael, the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. Michael used to be the chief business officer at Uber, so he knows how to hype a rollout.

Manifest Destiny is, of course, the ethos that President Donald Trump loves t

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