Pentagon research official wants to have AI on every desktop in 6 to 9 months

The Pentagon is angling to introduce artificial intelligence across its workforce within nine months following the reorganization of its key AI office.

Emil Michael, under secretary of defense for research and engineering at the Department of Defense, talked about the agency’s plans for introducing AI to its operations as it continues its modernization journey. 

“We want to have an AI capability on every desktop — 3 million desktops — in six or nine months,” Michael said during a Politico event on Tuesday. “We want to have it focus on applications for corporate use cases like efficiency, like you would use in your own company … for intelligence and for warfighting.”

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