Meta, OpenAI and Palantir CTOs join Army Reserve Tech Corps as lieutenant colonels
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Top executives from Meta, OpenAI, and Palantir have been sworn into the US Army Reserve as lieutenant colonels, joining Detachment 201, a tech-focused military initiative to improve the Army’s digital capabilities. The “initiation” ceremony took place Friday, one day before the Army’s 250th birthday. The four tech leaders, Meta Chief Technology Officer Andrew Bosworth, OpenAI Chief Product Officer Kevin Weil, Palantir Chief Technology Officer Shyam Sankar, and Bob McGrew, an advisor at Thinking Machines Lab and former Chief Research Officer at OpenAI, have enlisted in the Executive Innovation Corps under the Army Reserve. Their mission is to make technological advancements like artificial intelligence “more familiar” to the military while working part-time and as civilians. Officials did not disclose the planned size of the detachment. According to an Army statement, Detachment 201 is designed to “bridge the commercial-military tech gap” by adding the input of private-sector leaders directly into military projects. Each executive will serve as a senior advisor for approximately 120 hours annually. Tech executives training military to be ‘combat-ready’ According to the Wall Street Journal, the executives will be responsible for advising the Army on AI-powered systems, drones, and battlefield robotics. “Det. 201 is an effort to recruit senior tech executives to serve part-time in the Army Reserve as senior advisors,” the Army stated in a press release. “In this role they will work on targeted projects to help guide rapid and scalable tech solutions to complex problems.” Andrew Bosworth, 43, who leads Meta’s hardware and XR initiatives, said he had a personal desire in joining the program as it could honor his family’s military legacy. “It’s possible I watched too much ‘Top Gun,’” he joked. At over six feet tall, Bosworth once aspired to fly fighter jets but was told he was too tall for the cockpit. Now,…
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