Google to Provide Pentagon With AI Agents for Unclassified Work

Alphabet Inc.’s Google is introducing artificial intelligence agents across the Pentagon’s three million-strong workforce to automate routine jobs, according to a senior defense official.

Google’s Gemini AI agents, which can undertake work independently on behalf of a user who sets them tasks, will initially operate on unclassified networks, said Emil Michael, the under secretary of defense for research and engineering.

“We’re starting with unclassified because that’s where most of the users are, and then we’ll get to classified and top secret,” Michael said in an interview, adding that talks with Google over using the agents on the classified ...