Three Phases of AI Adoption: From GPU Lottery to Enterprise Agreements
Chase Hasbrouck
[un]prompted 2026 — AI Security Practitioner Conference · Day 1 · 2
Lt. Colonel Chase Hasbrouck spent two years trying to get U.S. Army cybersecurity personnel to adopt AI tools — and largely failed. His talk traces three distinct phases of military AI adoption: a shadow-usage era with no approved tools, a centralized-but-inadequate first deployment, and a new enterprise agreement phase that finally delivers access but runs headlong into a culture problem. The takeaway for enterprise security teams: access is the easy problem; culture is the hard one. ---
AI review
Hasbrouck's military AI adoption story is uniquely candid and the institutional failure modes he describes — token scarcity, ATO process lag, cultural inertia — are real and underreported. The 'largely failed' framing is more useful than a hundred success story talks. But this is an adoption talk, not a security talk.