Gen. John Shanahan

How the Commerce crackdown on Anthropic could impact the Pentagon: Experts

By imposing export controls on the bug-hunting AI Mythos/Fable 5, the Commerce Department has complicated the Pentagon’s already fraught relationship with Anthropic.

Trump memo on AI aims to avoid repeat of Anthropic debacle

The “National Security Presidential Memorandum” urges closer collaboration with AI companies — as long as they’re compliant with Pentagon demands — and orders a sweeping revision of Biden-era guardrails on military AI.

For defense AI, bubble, bubble, toil and … bargains?: 2026 preview

“The bubble is real,” said the founder of the Pentagon’s Joint AI Center, retired Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan. “[But] for the DoD, there could be new opportunities to partner with all kinds of tech companies…if their commercial opportunities start to evaporate.”

Chinese use of Claude AI for hacking will drive demand for AI cyber defense, say experts

“We’re now going to see agentic cyber defenses deployed against agentic cyber attacks,” said Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan, founder of the Pentagon’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center.

Pentagon should experiment with AIs like ChatGPT — but don’t trust them yet: DoD’s ex-AI chiefs

The potential of “generative AI” is too big to ignore, say retired generals Jack Shanahan and Mike Groen, who each led the Pentagon's Joint AI Center — but for now, its tendency to “hallucinate” and make up information is “a showstopper.”

Deloitte Wins $106M JAIC Contract To Build AI Toolkit

The Joint Common Foundation will put a standard set of tools in the cloud, where any Defense Department AI project can use them.

Pentagon AI Gains ‘Overwhelming Support’ From Tech Firms – Even Google

Despite past battles over Project Maven and other military uses of AI, “Google and many others” are now working with the Pentagon’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, its new acting director says.

AF Should Consider New Combined ISR/Cyber/EW Command: Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan

"There are a lot of autonomous systems in DoD today. There are very few, and I would say really no significant, AI enabled autonomous systems," says Shanahan, who is trying to change that.

Joint AI Center Turns To Air Force cloudONE As JEDI Stalls

The Joint Artificial Intelligence Center needs three things: new acquisition authorities, more staff, and the cloud. With JEDI delayed ‘potentially many more months,’ director Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan said, he’s turning to an Air Force alternative.

DoD Adopts AI Ethics Principles — But How Will They Be Enforced?

Writing regulations will take months. Convincing industry and academia to trust the military to handle AI ethically could take years.

Pentagon AI Efforts Disorganized: RAND

The RAND report, commissioned by the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, unsurprisingly recommends more power for the JAIC over future service budgets. Right now AI efforts are so diffuse no one's even sure what's in the 2020 appropriations bill just passed.

EXCLUSIVE Pentagon’s AI Problem Is ‘Dirty’ Data: Lt. Gen. Shanahan

The military has all the data it needs to train machine learning algorithms for war – somewhere. Now the Joint AI Center has to find it all and clean it up. The goal: AI Ready data.

Google To Pentagon: ‘We’re Eager To Do More’

Google wants to move beyond the ‘frustrating’ criticism of Project Maven and work closely with the Pentagon’s year-old Joint AI Center, senior VP Kent Walker said.

No AI For Nuclear Command & Control: JAIC’s Shanahan

The Joint Artificial Intelligence Center won't automate nuclear response -- but it is working towards AI on conventional weapons and leery of arms control.