Meta approves the military application of artificial intelligence in its AI by its closest allies and USA

A petition from Silicon Valley in March 2023 called for a 6-month moratorium on AI. According to signatories, including Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, AI posed a “major risk” for humanity. Meta, Facebook’s parent company is now approving the use of AI for military purposes.

Nick Clegg has announced that this decision was not made in response to Donald J. Trump being elected. He is now Meta’s Chief Lobbyist. It is a new development, since the terms of LLama – the company’s in-house AI – prohibited its use, including , “for war, nuclear or military purposes.”

A strategic U-turn

Meta’s representative said that his company wanted to support the economic, safety and security of America as well as its closest allies. He also pointed out that “the adoption of American AI open-source models is both beneficial for economic security”

He argues that it’s “in America’s and democratic world’s interests that US open-source models are superior to Chinese or other models”.

Two messages are conveyed in the following way:

• There is a convergence of economic, military, and technological interests.
• A company, on the other hand assumes that it represents a nation, namely the United States. In particular by confronting China, but also other countries, such as the Europeans.

Private and public beneficiaries

Meta announced that it would place its LLama model at the service US government agencies as well as firms in the defense sector such as Lockheed Martin or Booz Allen.

This affects the entire US defence ecosystem. The US defense ecosystem is affected.

A broader collaboration

With Palantir, the US defense ecosystem is now involved.

Collaboration extended to US allies

Meta already stated that they will be sharing their technology with the members of “Five Eyes”, the intelligence alliance consisting of Canada, Great Britain and Australia.

Strengthening strategic and geopolitical allies by bringing in disruptive technologies from private industry.

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