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Silicon Valley Executives Join the Army as Officers. The men will get to skip the usual process of taking a Direct Commissioning Course and won’t need to complete the Army Fitness Test. (gizmodo.com)

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[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 63 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The Army said in a press release that the four executives are Shyam Sankar, CTO at Palantir; Andrew Bosworth, CTO at Meta; Kevin Weil, Chief Product Officer of OpenAI; and Bob McGrew, an advisor at Thinking Machines Lab and former Chief Research Officer for OpenAI.

The four men are being commissioned at the high rank of lieutenant colonel as part of a program called Detachment 201: The Army’s Executive Innovation Corps.

Anyone else find this extremely worrying?

[–] Montagge@lemmy.zip 24 points 1 month ago

You definitely should be

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

It’s fucking terrifying

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago

Sounds like those people are swearing fealty to their respective corporations and not the Constitution.