{"id":4140,"date":"2026-07-21T09:51:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T09:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=4140"},"modified":"2026-07-21T09:51:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T09:51:39","slug":"the-army-is-burning-through-its-ai-tokens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=4140","title":{"rendered":"The Army Is Burning Through Its AI Tokens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"lead-in-text-callout\">A little over<\/span> a month after the Department of Defense (DOD) <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/user-increase-dod-workers-using-military-ai-program-daily-official-2026-6?utm_source=reddit&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=insider-politics-sub-post\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/user-increase-dod-workers-using-military-ai-program-daily-official-2026-6?utm_source=reddit&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=insider-politics-sub-post&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/user-increase-dod-workers-using-military-ai-program-daily-official-2026-6?utm_source=reddit&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=insider-politics-sub-post\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bragged<\/a> that nearly half of its 3.5 million employees were using AI at work, members of the Army\u2019s Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) received an email informing them that they were burning through tokens, and needed to limit use.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cAlthough the Army CIO announced in May 2026 that they were offering unlimited tokens, by mid-June the Army CIO pool was exhausted of tokens and had to re-establish limits,\u201d the email reads. The email goes on to say that although the Army has chosen to renew token usage at \u201cits current levels,\u201d it\u2019s unclear \u201cif the Army CIO pool will be renewed after 1 Oct.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The Army uses <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.army.mil\/article\/285537\/army_launches_army_enterprise_llm_workspace_the_revolutionary_ai_platform_that_wrote_this_article\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.army.mil\/article\/285537\/army_launches_army_enterprise_llm_workspace_the_revolutionary_ai_platform_that_wrote_this_article&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.army.mil\/article\/285537\/army_launches_army_enterprise_llm_workspace_the_revolutionary_ai_platform_that_wrote_this_article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ask Sage<\/a>, a multimodal generative AI platform where users can run different large language models (LLMs), including Alphabet\u2019s Gemini, Meta\u2019s Llama, and OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT. \u201cApparently the whole Army burned through the whole year of tokens for just one service,\u201d says an Army employee who spoke to WIRED anonymously because they were not authorized to speak to the press.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Ask Sage is <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.asksage.ai\/who-we-serve\/defense\/\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.asksage.ai\/who-we-serve\/defense\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.asksage.ai\/who-we-serve\/defense\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">used<\/a> by the Army to \u201cpower its enterprise LLM workspace\u201d and is \u201caccredited for Controlled Unclassified Information.\u201d It is also used by the DOD\u2019s Chief Digital and AI Office (CDAO) for acquisitions. According to the Army\u2019s <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.army.mil\/article\/285537\/army_launches_army_enterprise_llm_workspace_the_revolutionary_ai_platform_that_wrote_this_article\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.army.mil\/article\/285537\/army_launches_army_enterprise_llm_workspace_the_revolutionary_ai_platform_that_wrote_this_article&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.army.mil\/article\/285537\/army_launches_army_enterprise_llm_workspace_the_revolutionary_ai_platform_that_wrote_this_article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>, Ask Sage was used to complete tasks like \u201creclassifying personnel descriptions, which involves defining and aligning job duties, experience and backgrounds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The Army employee says that the Army has been pushing its workers to lean into using generative AI. Employees were given an allotment of at least 200,000 tokens per month, according to emails viewed by WIRED, and were automatically allocated more if they burned through their initial allotment. Employees who had signed up for Ask Sage but were not regularly using it would receive emails encouraging them to use more of their allocated tokens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">In order to use Ask Sage, the Army had access to 100,000,000 tokens as part of an annual subscription to an \u201centerprise pack.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/claude-tokens-compute-cost-code-8x8\/\" class=\"text link\">Tokens<\/a> represent a unit of output, either in text or image, from an LLM. For the Ask Sage tool, a single token equates to about 3.7 characters, according to documents viewed by WIRED. The Defense Department burned through some <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/2026\/05\/insatiable-appetite-for-ai-maven-usage-surged-for-strikes-on-iran-pentagon-ai-chief-says\/\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/2026\/05\/insatiable-appetite-for-ai-maven-usage-surged-for-strikes-on-iran-pentagon-ai-chief-says\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/2026\/05\/insatiable-appetite-for-ai-maven-usage-surged-for-strikes-on-iran-pentagon-ai-chief-says\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">20 billion tokens<\/a> per day during the 38-day Operation Epic Fury in Iran, according to <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/2026\/05\/insatiable-appetite-for-ai-maven-usage-surged-for-strikes-on-iran-pentagon-ai-chief-says\/\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/2026\/05\/insatiable-appetite-for-ai-maven-usage-surged-for-strikes-on-iran-pentagon-ai-chief-says\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/2026\/05\/insatiable-appetite-for-ai-maven-usage-surged-for-strikes-on-iran-pentagon-ai-chief-says\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Breaking Defense<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The Army and DOD didn\u2019t reply to requests for comment; neither did Ask Sage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">It\u2019s unclear if the tokens used by regular DOD employees are drawn from the same pool as those who might be using AI tools on classified or secret information. This hasn\u2019t stopped the Defense Department\u2019s emphasis on AI. On Monday, <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2026\/07\/20\/hegseth-civilian-harm-deaths-war\/\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2026\/07\/20\/hegseth-civilian-harm-deaths-war\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2026\/07\/20\/hegseth-civilian-harm-deaths-war\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Intercept reported<\/a> that the Pentagon has continued to lean into AI tools, and has cut the staff at the Civilian Protection Center of Excellence, whose jobs entailed preventing civilian casualties in conflict zones. Instead, the DOD is developing an AI tool to speed up the assessments that the Center\u2019s staff would normally make.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The Army is not the first eager adopter of generative AI to rethink their near unlimited use. After encouraging employees to \u201ctokenmaxx,\u201d Meta quietly <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/18\/technology\/ai-token-minimizing.html\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/18\/technology\/ai-token-minimizing.html&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/18\/technology\/ai-token-minimizing.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">took down<\/a> its leaderboard tracking token usage and is now trying to curb use. Last week, <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/07\/14\/metas-adam-mosseri-says-ai-token-budgets-could-soon-be-capped-per-engineer\/\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/07\/14\/metas-adam-mosseri-says-ai-token-budgets-could-soon-be-capped-per-engineer\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/07\/14\/metas-adam-mosseri-says-ai-token-budgets-could-soon-be-capped-per-engineer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Mosseri<\/a>, head of Instagram at Meta, floated the idea of capping token use per engineer at the company. According to reporting from <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2026\/05\/26\/uber-coo-ai-spending-tokens-claude-code\/\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/fortune.com\/2026\/05\/26\/uber-coo-ai-spending-tokens-claude-code\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2026\/05\/26\/uber-coo-ai-spending-tokens-claude-code\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fortune<\/a>, Uber also saw its engineers burning through a year\u2019s worth of generative AI tokens in merely four months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The Army employee says they have not found the generative AI tools to be particularly useful for their work, and that when they have used the tools, they have found them to be unreliable. One model even asserted that it had completed a task that it hadn\u2019t, they say. \u201cI think there are definitely several aspects of the bureaucracy of the US federal government that these tools might be helpful with. But an unthinking application and use is not going to result in an effective, efficient, and trustworthy rollout.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/the-army-is-burning-through-its-ai-tokens\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little over a month after the Department of Defense (DOD) bragged that nearly half of its 3.5 million employees were using AI at work, members of the Army\u2019s Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) received an email informing them that they were burning through tokens, and needed to limit use. \u201cAlthough the Army CIO announced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[83,440,50,439,75],"class_list":["post-4140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gadgets","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-department-of-defense","tag-government","tag-military","tag-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - 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