The Pentagon on Friday named as chief data officer a computer scientist who aided billionaire Elon Musk’s efforts to overhaul the government last year and who has \u200cboosted \u2060white supremacists \u2060and misogynists online. <\/p>\n
In a social media post, the Pentagon said Gavin Kliger’s new role “places him at the center of the Department’s most ambitious AI efforts,” focusing on “day-to-day alignment and execution of \u2060the Department’s \u200cAI projects, working directly with America’s frontier AI labs to support \u2060the warfighter.” <\/p>\n
The Pentagon did not immediately \u200brespond to a Reuters request \u200bfor more comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Pentagon on Friday named as chief data officer a computer scientist who aided billionaire Elon Musk’s efforts to overhaul the government last year and who has \u200cboosted \u2060white supremacists \u2060and misogynists online. In a social media post, the Pentagon said Gavin Kliger’s new role “places him at the center of the Department’s most ambitious AI efforts,” focusing on “day-to-day alignment and execution of \u2060the Department’s \u200cAI projects, working directly with America’s frontier AI labs to support \u2060the warfighter.” The Pentagon did not immediately \u200brespond to a Reuters request \u200bfor more comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-996783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=996783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}