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?
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.
This feels like cosplay + "you could just do ..." energy that will undoubtedly funnel money straight back to these companies.
I find it odd that they force PhDs, literal fucking doctor's, to go through the Direct Commission course, but allow these dipshit tech nerds to skip it. Almost as if their wealth allowed them privilege a god damned doctor doesn't typically have after a decade of school debt
For those who have read the Galaxy's Edge series, I can only think of the appointees (aka 'Points). Political appointed officer who often end up getting the legionaries killed and lack the combat prowess/skill to be in the officer position they exercise.
Realistically we have many other direct commission officers such as the medical, engineers, legal, etc. What's really different here is they are not requiring the full 5 week Direct commission officer basic course .
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Get ready for 90-10 style reviews every month or quarter, and then these idiot tech bros being confused they can't just fire people in the military for no goddamned reason.
They are the very model of modern major generals!
general issue office workers <> PX heros
I find this worrying, yet—I’ll play devil’s advocate:
Having CEO-like people in charge of others is not necessarily bad, assuming they’re not in charge of front-line people. The vast majority of military work is logistics and intel. Having some that knows how to accomplish that efficiently isn’t a bad idea.
They 100% will be put in charge of front liners, though.
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