Shannon E. French, Inamori Center Director and Inamori Professor in Ethics, spoke with USA Today about four executives from tech companies, including Palantir, Meta and OpenAI, that the US Army commissioned as reserve officers at the rank of lieutenant colonel.
The shift, as evidenced by the new tech officers, is “not as driven by the needs of the military as it is by the tremendous AI hype that’s been produced by those very companies” to which they belong said Shannon French.