Artificial intelligence models created by America’s largest technology companies are increasingly being used for military and defense purposes.
Earlier this month, Meta began allowing its Llama artificial intelligence model to be used by US government agencies “working on defense and national security” after it became clear that Chinese researchers had used his code – which anyone can download and use – to develop an AI model for the army to use.
Meanwhile, defense contractor Palantir uses Anthropic’s Claude AI to monitor government data, and OpenAI has named a former Palatir executive and a retired Army general to its board.