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What Big Tech's Band of Execs Will Do in the Army
Meta CTO Andrew "Boz" Bosworth and leaders from OpenAI and Palantir have joined a detachment intended to make the US Armed Forces "force leaner, smarter, and more lethal."
When I read a tweet about four noted Silicon Valley executives being inducted into a special detachment of the United States Army Reserve, including Meta CTO Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, I questioned its veracity. Parmeter, a former combat soldier who headed veteran support at Walmart before joining the Department of Defense in 2023, had been pondering how to bring experienced technologists into service to update an insufficiently tech-savvy militia when he met Sankar at a conference early last year. Weil, who I’ve known for years, told me that when Sankar explained the program, “I was just like, ‘Yes, I want to help—that sounds amazing.’” But during a wave of widespread unease over privileges of tech elite—did you see those disgusting billionaire bros on that show Mountainhead?—special arrangements for well-off digital achievers seems tone-deaf.
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