{"id":183652,"date":"2025-01-11T18:01:14","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T18:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/?p=183652"},"modified":"2025-01-11T18:01:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T18:01:14","slug":"openai-is-using-its-technology-to-develop-ai-weapons-for-use-on-the-battlefield-contract-and-partnership-with-pentagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/openai-is-using-its-technology-to-develop-ai-weapons-for-use-on-the-battlefield-contract-and-partnership-with-pentagon\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI Is Using Its Technology to Develop AI Weapons for Use on the Battlefield. Contract and Partnership with Pentagon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anduril, based in Costa Mesa, makes AI-powered drones, missiles, and radar systems, including surveillance towers, Sentry systems<\/a>, currently used at US military bases worldwide as well as the US-Mexico border and on the British coastline to detect migrants on boats<\/a>. On December 3rd, they received a three-year contract<\/a> with the Pentagon for a system that gives soldiers AI solutions during attacks.<\/p>\n

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An Anduril Sentry Tower in California (Licensed under CC BY 3.0)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In January, OpenAI deleted a direct ban<\/a> in their usage policy on \u201cactivity that has high risk of physical harm<\/em>\u201d which specifically included \u201cmilitary and warfare<\/em>\u201d and \u201cweapons development<\/em>.\u201d Less than one week after doing so, the company announced<\/a> a partnership with the Pentagon in cybersecurity.<\/p>\n

While they might have removed a ban on making weapons, OpenAI\u2019s lurch into the war industry is in total antithesis to its own charter<\/a>. Their own proclamation to build \u201csafe and beneficial AGI [Artificial Generative Intelligence]<\/em>\u201d that does not \u201charm humanity<\/em>\u201d is laughable when they are using technology to kill. ChatGPT could feasibly, and probably soon will, write code for an automated weapon, analyze information for bombings, or assist invasions and occupations.<\/p>\n

We should all be frightened by this use of AI for death and destruction. But this is not new. Israel and the US have been testing and using AI in Palestine for years. In fact, Hebron has been dubbed a \u201csmart city<\/em>\u201d as the occupation enforces its tyranny through a perforation of motion and heat sensors, facial recognition technologies, and CCTV surveillance.<\/p>\n

At the center of this oppressive surveillance is the Blue Wolf System, an AI tool that scans the faces of Palestinians, when they are photographed by Israeli occupation soldiers, and refers to a biometric database in which information about them is stored. Upon inputting the photo into the system, each person is classified by a color-coded rating based on their perceived \u2018threat level\u2019 to dictate whether the soldier should allow them to pass or arrest them. The IOF soldiers are rewarded with prizes for taking the most photographs, which they have termed \u201cFacebook for Palestinians<\/em>\u201d, according to revelations from the Washington Post<\/em> in 2021.<\/a><\/p>\n

OpenAI\u2019s war technology comes as the Biden administration is pushing for the US to use the technology to \u201cfulfill national security objectives<\/em>.\u201d This was in fact part of the title of a White House memorandum<\/a> released in October 2024 calling for rapid development of artificial intelligence \u201cespecially in the context of national security systems<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

While not explicitly naming China, it is clear that a perceived \u2018AI arms race\u2019 with China is also a central motivation of the Biden administration for such a call. Not solely is this for weapons for war, but also racing for the development of technology writ large.<\/p>\n

In December 2024, the US banned the export <\/a>of HBM chips to China, a critical component of AI and high-level graphics processing units (GPU). Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt warned that China is two to three years ahead of the US when it comes to AI, a major change from his earlier statements where he remarked that the US is ahead of China.<\/p>\n

When he says there is a \u201cthreat escalation matrix<\/em>\u201d<\/a> when there are developments in AI, he reveals that the US sees the technology only as a tool of war and a way to assert hegemony. AI is the latest in the US\u2019 unrelenting \u2013 and dangerous \u2013 provocation and fear mongering with China, who they cannot bear to see advance them.<\/p>\n

In response to the White House memorandum, OpenAI released a statement of its own<\/a> where it re-asserted many of the White House\u2019s lines about \u201cdemocratic values<\/em>\u201d and \u201cnational security<\/em>.\u201d But what is democratic about a company developing technology to better target and bomb people? Who is made secure by the collection of information to better determine war technology? This surely reveals the alignment of the company with the Biden administration\u2019s anti-China rhetoric and imperialist justifications.<\/p>\n

As the company that has surely pushed AGI systems within general society, it is deeply alarming that they have ditched all codes and jumped right in with the Pentagon. While it\u2019s not surprising that companies like Palantir or even Anduril itself are using AI for war, from companies like OpenAI \u2013 a supposedly mission-driven nonprofit \u2013 we should expect better.<\/p>\n

AI is being used to streamline killing. At the US-Mexico border, in Palestine, and in US imperial outposts across the globe. While AI systems may seem for some people as innocently embedded within our daily lives, from search engines to music streaming sites, we need to consider that these companies are using the same technology lethally. While ChatGPT might give you ten ways to protest, it is likely being trained to kill, better and faster.<\/p>\n

From the war machine to our planet<\/a>, AI in the hands of US imperialists means only more profits for them and more devastation and destruction for us all.<\/p>\n

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yogaesoteric
\nJanuary 11, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n

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