Maj. Gen. William Hank Taylor, commanding general of the 8th Army, told Business Insider he is using AI tools like ChatGPT to make decisions that can impact thousands of soldiers.
He added that “Chat and I” have become “really close lately.” According to the Major General, he has been using AI to build models to “help all of us,” especially for predicting next steps based on weekly reports.
That’s all you have got? I can’t find his age, but based on his military career I am guessing he is Gen X and not a boomer. Besides, the age of someone using tools like this is kind of irrelevant in this case. It’s his rank and power, and the fact that he is probably typing in information that is not cleared, into a system that is basically recording everything he asks or discusses with it. Add to that the fact that he is actually listening to the ramblings of a program he has no idea what the program is using to formulate its decision and it is even more scary. This has serious implications way beyond “boomer bad…”. It means that if the owners/programmers of chatgpt can effectively recognize when someone in a position of power is using their tool, they could manipulate the responses to their benefit, or they could just screw with things. Either way it’s a dangerous situation, especially when the people involved have control of military forces.