Pentagon launches new Gemini based AI platform

US military getting AI, but not everyone's thrilled

News By Sead Fadilpašić published 12 December 2025

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• US launches GenAI.mil, giving three million DoD personnel access to Gemini for Government
• Experts warn prompt‑injection risks could enable espionage if accounts or workstations are compromised
• Google’s history of employee protests over military projects raises questions about internal reaction

The US military is getting Google’s Gemini. Earlier this week, US Secretary of Defense, Pete Hesgeth, published a new video on X, announcing GenAI.mil, a platform that “puts the world’s most powerful frontier AI models directly into the hands of every American warrior.”

The platform will be available to roughly three million employees of the US Department of Defense (or, as the current administration refers to it, the Department of War), which includes both military and civilian personnel, all of whom will receive free training on how to use the tool.

The platform runs on Google’s Gemini for Government, a specialized enterprise AI platform and service designed specifically for US federal government agencies.

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Google employees against warfare

In theory, that means that the models are more secure, compliant, and government-ready, compared to the commercial, free-to-use alternatives. However, if that really is the case - remains to be seen.

In its writeup, Cybernews argues that a lot could go wrong here. Despite everyone’s best efforts, today’s AI models are still susceptible to prompt injection attacks, which means that the country’s adversaries, such as Russia, China, North Korea, or Iran, could get another avenue for data theft and cyber-espionage.

“Any compromised user workstation or common access card account now comes with a powerful AI console that might have access to internal context via integrations or provide a convenient way to summarize or transform stolen data,” Joshua Copeland, a cybersecurity expert at Tulane University, told the publication.

At the same time, the silence of Google’s employees is telling. Over the years, the employees protested multiple times over the company’s involvement in military, or defense purposes.

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