Greg Brockman: Meet the ChatGPT Billionaire Funding Trump, Pushing A.I. and Designing Hi-Tech Weapons

OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman has emerged as one of Donald Trump’s largest financial backers — more than Miriam Adelson — while pouring tens of millions into shaping U.S. policy and fighting A.I. regulation. As OpenAI pushes the Pentagon toward a future of A.I.-powered surveillance, targeting systems, and automated warfare, technologies already deployed by Israel during its assault on Gaza are becoming a blueprint for America’s next generation of military operations.

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
Greg Brockman - right, exposes connections to ai infrastructure and the pentagon.

He may not be a household name yet, but Greg Brockman is among the world’s most powerful individuals. The OpenAI co-founder is one of President Trump’s richest and most generous financial backers, and is spending tens of millions of dollars to fight A.I. regulation. He is using OpenAI to produce hi-tech and futuristic surveillance and military

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The Pentagon Is Using a Fabricated Chinese Threat to Build Genetically Engineered Soldiers

Washington claims China is creating genetically engineered cyborg soldiers. But with no proof, critics say the U.S. is exploiting the fear to launch its own dystopian biotech program.

Kit Klarenberg
By Kit Klarenberg
U.S. Army soldier wearing IVAS augmented reality headset during test

On April 8, a bipartisan commission chartered by Congress warned that China is rapidly advancing a terrifying new military threat: genetically engineered “super soldiers.” The report by the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology (NSCEB) urges the U.S. to respond with a sweeping effort to militarize biotechnology. It offers little

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Eric Schmidt Cashes in on Artificial Intelligence Arms Race

As the Pentagon drives a hi-tech arms race to maintain its global military superiority, ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt is the man at the center. Behind The Headlines’ Dan Cohen investigates how the U.S. empire’s drive to control the world using Silicon Valley technology creates the possibility of a devastating war. 

Dan Cohen
By Dan Cohen
Eric Schmidt Feature photo

 MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA -- The United States is leading a new artificial intelligence arms race that could spell the end of humanity. Back in 2014, a few years before he died, Stephen Hawking warned us about artificial intelligence: The primitive forms of artificial intelligence we already have, have proved very useful. But I think the

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Escaping the Singularity: Why Artificial Intelligence Will Not Save the Planet

The National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Act became law on the first day of 2021, opening a backdoor to America’s largest corporations to shield their commercial interests behind the full might of the US government.

Raul Diego
By Raul Diego
Google's campus-network room at their data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa. (Photo: Connie Zhou/AP)

Artificial intelligence has been touted as the next frontier in technological innovation by the world's brightest minds and celebrity CEOs like Elon Musk, who predict a hyper-connected future where big data, smart infrastructure, and biology all fuse into what 'futurist' Ray Kurzweil and others call the technological singularity. In his 1999

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Pentagon’s Top Spy Agency Turns To AI for Targeting and Operations Planning

Reminiscent of the 1983 sci-fi classic WarGames, the DIA’s new MARS program aims to create a system that uses AI to scour volumes of foreign intelligence and make decisions on how to act on it.

Raul Diego
By Raul Diego
DIA AI Feature photo

The U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is getting ready for the "next battlefield" and counting on the expertise of private concerns, like Booz Allen Hamilton, to implement what it calls Machine-assisted Analytic Rapid-repository System, or MARS for short. MARS is a critical data management system for "military targeting" and operation

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Federal Government Releases Bipartisan Anti-China Plan for Artificial Intelligence

A Washington think tank and Congress issued a bipartisan plan for AI, which utilizes the veneer of technology to formally cast China as the number one obstacle to US hegemony

Raul Diego
By Raul Diego
China Ariticial Intelligence Feature photo

A bipartisan plan for artificial intelligence (AI) in relation to national security has just been released by U.S. Representatives Robin Kelly (D-IL) and Will Hurd (R-TX). The report was put together by the D.C.-based think tank Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) and the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) of Georgetown University, in

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