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The era of GenAI.mil is here. Users have mixed reactions and many questions

Service members with U.S. Special Operations Command and U.S. Central Command use artificial intelligence to accomplish a practical exercise. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Marleah Miller)

By Brandi Vincent and Drew F. Lawrence

A little over a week after GenAI.mil’s rollout, service members and defense officials have met the Pentagon’s newest hub for commercial AI tools with mixed reception — and many questions.

While the military has been exploring and using large language model AI systems for more than two years, the Defense Department’s latest, large-scale generative AI push has hit the organization fast and expansively, meaning troops and civilian employees who may not have been exposed to these models before are now being told to use them in their daily operations.

The rapidly emerging field of genAI and associated LLMs — which generate convincing but not always correct software code, images, audio and other media from human prompts — present both promise and complex risks to U.S. national security and military operations. 

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