The US Defense Department’s first direct partnership with Open AI fuels concerns over militarized technology– especially as similar systems have already been used to facilitate Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
On Monday, June 16, the United States Department of Defense signed a $200 million contract with OpenAI to deploy generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) for military use, despite the company’s previous commitments not to develop AI tools for warfare.
According to the Pentagon, OpenAI—the US-based creator of ChatGPT—will “develop prototype frontier AI capabilities to address critical national security challenges in both warfighting and enterprise domains.”
Under this cooperation, OpenAI plans to demonstrate how advanced AI can enhance administrative functions, such as healthcare for military service members and cyber defense.
Now combine this with OpenAI’s plan to make people wear 24/7 microphone bugs that transcribe all your conversations (See towards the end of the latest Ordinary Things video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuIMZBseAOM) and you get a wonderful dystopian surveillance machine that is a literal 1984 replica.
Ordinary things is awesome, I liked the more video essay format of this one considering the topic