OpenAI wins $200m contract with US military for ‘warfighting’
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/17/openai-military-contract-warfighting
OpenAI wins $200m contract with US military for ‘warfighting’
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/17/openai-military-contract-warfighting
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“The San Francisco-based company will “develop prototype frontier AI capabilities to address critical national security challenges in both warfighting and enterprise domains”, according to the defense department’s posting of awarded contracts.
Big tech companies are increasingly pitching their tools to the US military, among them Meta and, more predictably, Palantir, the AI defense company founded by Peter Thiel, the conservative tech billionaire who has played a major role in Silicon Valley’s rightward shift.
OpenAI and defense tech startup Anduril Industries late last year announced a partnership to develop and deploy AI solutions “for security missions”. The alliance brings together OpenAI models and Anduril’s military tech platform to ramp up defenses against aerial drones and other “unmanned aircraft systems”, according to the companies.”
Do you want Skynet? Because that’s how you get Skynet.
The only way OpenAI can fight in any war is if they make their employees go slap enemy combatants with servers. Maybe they can take their GPUs and trebuchet them at buildings or something too.
Next step : openai announces chatgpt is in fact operated by 2000 indians engineers
ChatGPT, we are being attacked what’s the best course of action?
* ChatGPT starts hallucinating *
If you want proof that money is demonically evil, you got Silicon Valley. Remember the good ol’ days where tech companies at least pretended they weren’t morally bankrupt?
For now, 200 million is just pocket change, worry when it’s a 15 billion dollar military contract.
Waiting for the countdown to begin for Tech workers to unite against this aberration of AI used for Warfare and that Sam approved it!
Heck, they just protested against Microsoft for having contracts with the Israeli military. My guess is, that’s not the only military they have contracts with.
This doesn’t seem like a lot of money to them. Aren’t they spending 10s of millions on senior employees?
To be fair, your phone uses GPS, a technology developed for the military.
Soon you can ask chatGPT for recipes and military blueprints.
Yeah basically all the companies who cosied up to trump in election run up are coming to cash their checks.
Another 200 $200 million contracts and OpenAI is still losing money. This company is a turd with no future.
I can’t even get ChatGPT to remember my full code scripts when I ask for a minor edit. Good luck with this.
The frank reality is that we will have combat AI in the future. No one is going to give up the advantage of using it. Any country with defense/security concerns should be investing in military AI.
I don’t like this reality, to be honest. I would like to see folks exploring how to not unleash killer robots on humanity, but that will require treaties and international collaboration between geopolitical adversaries.
Why would US army be interested in OpenAI technology, when the have more advanced stuff behind closed doors… I don’t get it.
This self inflicted apocalypse by the blase nerds is just what you all deserve fir mocking the obese doomsday peppers.
“Y2k, stop being so sensitive. ”
Fvck outahere SimAltMan
So, the app that can’t accurately describe pop star accomplishments without hallucinating is going to be in charge of bombing people. Ok.
Sounds profitable, and that’s all that really matters.
If you want to sell something to Pete Hegseth, don’t forget to call it “warfighting”.
I’m gonna be real fuckin happy when “warfighting” is no longer the buzzword from these adult children running the show.