Is the Pentagon allowed to surveil Americans with AI?

The Pentagon and AI companies are in a dispute over whether existing U.S. law allows the government to use AI to analyze bulk commercial data collected from Americans for surveillance purposes. Legal experts point out that current law has a major gap: public information, commercial data (like location and browsing records), and information accidentally collected during foreign surveillance are not legally considered "surveillance," so the government can use them without warrants or court orders, even as AI makes this surveillance much more powerful than before.