This episode indicates that the Trump admin's trust in "AI" is conditional. Hegseth can understand that an "AI" has limitations - he's demanding certain limitations be removed. Therefore, any time someone in the Trump admin uses the excuse that "AI said so, nothing can be done about it", we know that's a lie. The use of "AI" instead of human judgement is itself based upon n human judgement and biases.

Hegseth really tipped his cards here.