Inside the War Department's New Big Tech Artificial Intelligence Deals
The U.S. War Department has entered into agreements with eight major technology companies to deploy artificial intelligence on its classified networks for military applications. The partnerships aim to enhance decision-making in complex combat environments, though concerns remain about AI's speed, accountability, and ethical use in warfare. Notably, Anthropic was excluded due to prior disputes with the government, while Oracle was added later to the list of contractors.
- ▪The Pentagon has signed deals with Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, SpaceX, NVIDIA, Reflection, and Oracle to deploy AI on classified military networks.
- ▪Anthropic is not part of the agreement following a public and legal dispute with the Trump administration over AI ethics in warfare.
- ▪The Defense Department强调 human oversight in AI decision-making, particularly for target acquisition, though challenges remain due to AI's speed.
- ▪One concern is how to validate AI target-selection systems to ensure only legitimate military targets are engaged.
- ▪The Pentagon aims to both leverage AI capabilities and understand how to counter adversarial AI systems used by geopolitical rivals.
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Inside the War Department's New Big Tech Artificial Intelligence Deals By Ward Clark | 11:20 AM on May 04, 2026 The opinions expressed by contributors are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of RedState.com. AP Photo/Patrick Sison, File There's an oft-repeated saying, when discussing past and future conflict, that while the Great War was the war of chemists, the Second World War was the war of physicists, that any third world war will be the war of biologists. While that's likely true (and horrifying), any such future conflict will also be a war of computer programmers, with decisions in and around the battlespace made in microseconds by advanced AI.
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