The Pentagon introduces Google AI agent to automate non confidential daily work A senior official of the US Department of Defense stated that Google is deploying artificial intelligence agents for approximately 3 million personnel of the US Department of Defense to automate daily work. Emil Michael, the Deputy Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering at the US Department of Defense, stated that Google's Gemini AI agent can independently perform tasks after being set by the user, and will initially run on non classified networks. He added that the Ministry of National Defense is in discussions with Google to deploy these agents on the Jiyunyun platform. Google Vice President Jim Kelly stated in a blog post on Tuesday that this new feature will allow civilian and military personnel of the Department of Defense to build AI agents through natural language. Google has faced internal criticism in the past for its collaboration with the Ministry of Defense. In 2018, thousands of employees protested against the company's participation in Project Maven, which is the Pentagon's plan to use AI to analyze overseas drone warfare video data. The opposition ultimately led to Google not renewing the contract for the project.