Department of Defense AI Adoption Under New Leadership

"In 90 days... we've had 1.2 million of the 3 million people at the department use some form of AI. That number was 80,000 before I started." @emilmichael on reshaping the Department of War's priorities and going all in on AI: "When I took the role in May... we had 14 critical priority areas in this role... they hadn't changed in nearly a decade." "Who can remember 14 things when you're trying to motivate a workforce?" "We got them down to six... they were places where I thought we had the greatest opportunity for change and for growth and impact on our combat power and for our industrial base." "Applied AI was number one. So then we moved the chief digital and AI office into my group, and we were able to run extremely fast with that... we're way behind in AI at the department, and we know it's penetrating the rest of the world so dramatically, so quickly." "Our adversaries were also using it... they want to use computers to eliminate human decision making. We want to enhance human decision making." @USWREMichael @DoWCTO @davidu