Who is Dan Driscoll? OpenAI hires ex-US Army Secretary and Trump’s ‘drone guy’ to lead national security AI push

OpenAI has appointed former US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll as its senior counsellor for national security modernisation, as the artificial intelligence company looks to expand the use of advanced AI in defence
and cybersecurity.

The company announced the appointment on Monday, creating a new role in which Driscoll will advise OpenAI’s leadership and its public- and private-sector partners on deploying AI to strengthen national security and cyber resilience.