The military's new AI says 'hypothetical' boat strike scenario 'unambiguously illegal’

The military's new AI says 'hypothetical' boat strike scenario 'unambiguously illegal’

An artificial intelligence chatbot unveiled by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday appears to have described airstrikes against suspected drug smugglers at sea as “unambiguously illegal.” The platform, powered by Google Gemini, has been made available to military personnel as part of the Pentagon’s effort to adopt AI. In a video posted to X, Hegseth said the platform, known as GenAI.mil, puts “the world's most powerful frontier AI models i…