Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI get $800M to hop in bed with Pentagon

The Pentagon's embrace of the AI industry just put up to $800 million on the table, as the Department of Defense issued a quartet of contracts bringing the biggest names in the biz officially into the fold.  The Pentagon's Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) today announced contracts with Anthropic, Google …

[ecofeco]

Yeah, this will end well

Not!

Glad you posted this Brandon. This is insanity. Nazi AI now working for the U.S. DoD. Goddamn it.

[Anonymous Coward]

They cut NIH, NSF, and NASA funding in half for this?!

Wut!? No Llamas, no AI goats to stare at, no AI Therapist Barbie, what is this DoD coming to (not to mention US "research" at large)???

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: They cut NIH, NSF, and NASA funding in half for this?!

Sounds like xAI needs its funding rescinded for not doing enough to stop anti-Semitic hate.after the recent MechaHitler rant.

If it’s good enough for Harvard …..

[Omnipresent]

game over man

We're all gonna die.

[Roj Blake]

Chess

I'm sure AI is every bit as good at coming up with military tactics as it is at playing chess.

[Anonymous Coward]

Grok less than reliable

As a grammar Nazi, I'd like to point out in this case that it's not "less" - it's "fewerer".

[Paul Hovnanian]

Re: Grok less than reliable

Jawohl mein fewerer!

[amanfromMars 1]

Well, who would have a’thunk it. Thanks for the invite to demonise war and empty war chests.

Clearly have the Pentagon no clue about all that AI can do to them.

[Like a badger]

Re: Well, who would have a’thunk it. Thanks for the invite to demonise war and empty war chests.

Hmmm, short and insightful. Either your account has been hacked, or you are unwell, sir.

[IGotOut]

Sooo...

...more government subsidies?

I think Europe should start banning all the companies involved due to their ties with the military linked to a corrupt authoritarian regime.

[Always Right Mostly]

What could go wrong?

Seen this movie before. Now the sequel: WarGames, now with AI.

[Anonymous Coward]

"get $800M to hop in bed"

Isn't that sort of suggesting AI and its promoters are expensive wh... hang on I guess that's the point !

USD 800 million is not a bad trick to turn.

[Paul Hovnanian]

In bed with Google et al?

More like the Pentagon is going to be bent over a bin in some Whitechapel alley.