Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered the use of artificial intelligence to “expedite” investigations by the office that looks into workplace discrimination and sexual harassment and in the early stages of Inspector General inquiries.

The AI instructions were in a series of memos released Tuesday by the Pentagon in the wake of Hegseth’s address to senior officers in Virginia.

The memos offer only hints at how AI might be used by investigators, such as to “classify and route complaints” along with scheduling and record keeping.

The memos continue a larger overhaul of the Pentagon’s Inspector General process and the Military Equal Opportunity, or MEO, and Equal Employment Opportunity, or EEO, programs, which Hegseth called for in April. The MEO and EEO look into accusations of racial

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