OpenAI wants to put its most powerful model at all levels of government to fight hackers

Oh brilliant. OpenAI, the lab that can't decide whether it's a public benefit corporation or a secretive AGI forge, has decided that the best use for its 'most powerful model' is to hand it to the Pentagon and DHS. Because nothing says 'building safe AGI' quite like propping up the digital defences of an agency that can't stop its own employees from clicking phishing links. The workshop they held was presumably a masterclass in 'how to deploy a black-box reasoning engine into critical infrastructure without any binding oversight.' Cheers.

And what could possibly go wrong when an unaccountable AI is let loose in the deepest recesses of government cyber ops? The same government that lost millions of records in the OPM breach, that can't secure its own email servers, is now going to 'shore up defenses' with a model that could also excel at breaking them. The Pentagon isn't exactly known for restraint when given a shiny new tool — remember the time they wanted nuclear-powered rockets? Now they get an AI that could, in theory, write its own attack code. But sure, let's 'combat hackers' by giving the state a potentially dangerous intelligence. What could possibly go wrong?

And of course OpenAI held a 'workshop' — that's tech-company speak for 'we showed slides and traded business cards while avoiding any discussion of red lines.' One can only imagine the meetings: 'So this model can also autonomously execute penetration testing? Strap it in.' The hackers must be delighted — their next targets just got a training manual. Meanwhile, the public gets the usual platitudes about 'responsible deployment' while the lab races to get its tech into every federal firewall. Hooray for progress. Anyone else feel like we're building the infrastructure for an AI arms race, one Pentagon workshop at a time?