From Prohibiting Military Use to Winning Over the Pentagon: OpenAI Hires Former Army Secretary as Advisor
On November 3, OpenAI announced that it had hired Daniel Driscoll, who just resigned as U.S. Secretary of the Army in August, as Senior Advisor for National Security and Modernization, to drive the implementation of AI in national security and cybersecurity. In a statement on the 2nd, the company said he will collaborate with government, academia, and industry to advance modernization reforms and advise public and private partners, leveraging AI to strengthen national security capabilities. Driscoll is 38 years old.