Emil Michael

I'm not sure what to expect.

I offered more talks, so long as they're in good faith.

We're always open to talks, and we set a deadline, and we meant the deadline.

And up until that deadline, I'm open to more talks, and I told them so.

That's up to Secretary Hegseth.

We have some courses of action that he's considering.

And ultimately, this comes down to the warfighter, right?

It comes down to, for any AI system we might use, are we using it to protect our warfighters in the right way?

Are we using it to sort of give them the best tools to be efficient and to be lethal when they have to be lethal?

And that's the primary thing in Secretary Hegseth's head.

And we told them that ultimately, at the end of the day, we follow the law, all laws.

But we can't let any one company stand between us and the warfighter because they don't make the rules.

Congress makes the rules.

The president signed them.

We execute them and we do so safely.

This has all been internal to the Department of War so far.

Well, I think the smart approach, when I came in at the Department of War about nine months ago and looked at what we were using AI for, and it was some pretty minimal use cases, and given the power of the technology and the potential power to do good for the U.S.

military, both from an efficiency standpoint and a strength standpoint,

I wanted to make sure we had a lot of options.

So we went around and we've launched Google for unclassified networks.