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 boosted white supremacists and 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 the Department’s AI projects, working directly with America’s frontier AI labs to support the warfighter.”
The Pentagon did not…
