Cameron Stanley, the Pentagon's top artificial intelligence official, said US allies lack resources and experience to keep pace with the US military's adoption of AI. The US is working with its closest allies, including NATO and Five Eyes nations, to help them avoid mistakes made by Washington in its own AI development. Since January, Stanley has overseen the launch of several new AI tools, including an internal chatbot platform that has reached 1.7 million users. He emphasized the importance of speed in adopting AI technology, saying it is a key factor in reducing decision-making time for military commanders.
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Cameron Stanley, the top artificial intelligence official at the Department of War, stated that US allies, including those in NATO and the Five Eyes partnership, lack the resources to keep pace with the US military's adoption of AI. According to Stanley, these countries don't have the same level of experience, scale, or budget as the US. This is a concern because the US has already made mistakes in its use of AI, and it's actively working with its allies to prevent them from making similar errors. In particular, the US is trying to steer its partners away from repeating the mistakes of Project Maven, an AI targeting program that was launched in 2017. This effort comes as the Pentagon's AI office has been launching new tools, including an internal chatbot platform called GenAI.mil that has reached over 1.7 million users, and a system designed to speed up intelligence gathering and decision-making.
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The Pentagon’s top artificial intelligence official said on Tuesday that America’s closest allies lack the resources to keep pace with the US military’s adoption of AI, and that Washington is working to steer them away from mistakes it made along the way.
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“They don’t have the resources that we do, they don’t have the experience that we do, they don’t have the scale that we do,” Cameron Stanley, chief digital and artificial intelligence officer at the Department of War, said at an event at the Billington Cybersecurity summit.
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Of Nato and the Five Eyes, an intelligence-sharing partnership of the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, Stanley said Washington was “actively working with a number of our partners” so “they don’t make the same mistakes that we make”.
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The comments come less than a year into Stanley’s tenure, during which the Pentagon’s AI office has rolled out several new tools while losing a number of senior staff.
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Since January, Stanley has overseen the launch of GenAI.mil, an internal chatbot platform he says has reached 1.7 million users, and Agent Network, a system designed to shorten the time between intelligence-gathering and a commander’s decision.
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Pentagon secretary Pete Hegseth has directed Stanley’s office to report AI deployment speed as a monthly metric, part of a wider push to expand military computing power.
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Much of Stanley’s appearance focused on speed.
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He described watching a commander halt a scheduled briefing to take a 30-second phone call and issue an order on the spot, without a formal decision brief or a review of the room’s security clearance level.
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He called the moment “revolutionary”.
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“I know it sounds simplistic,” Stanley explained.
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“It’s only simplistic because we’re good at it now.”
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It’s a term he has used before.
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Project Maven, the Pentagon’s original AI targeting program launched in 2017, became the Palantir-built Maven Smart System, which the US leaned on heavily during its 2026 air campaign against Iran, helping strike more than 13,000 targets over the first 38 days, according to Stanley at conference in May.
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Speaking at Palantir’s AIPCon 9 conference in March, Stanley called Maven “revolutionary” too, saying it let commanders go from identifying a target to launching a strike within a single platform.
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But the campaign has drawn scrutiny.
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More than 120 members of the US Congress signed a letter demanding answers from the Pentagon regarding civilian casualties and the use of artificial intelligence, following a 28 February strike on an elementary school in Minab, which Iranian officials say killed at least 168 people, many of them children.
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Stanley ended by telling the audience that the department’s old habits were now its biggest liability.
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“The way we’ve always done it is the most risky course of action,” he said, adding that the department needs to “think differently” if it wants AI tools in the hands of warfighters faster.
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