The Pentagon writes ‘ideological neutrality’ into its AI contracts

Arguments about the politics of AI models usually end in speeches. In Washington this one has ended, as arguments there eventually do, in contract language. On 20 October John Tenaglia, principal director of Defense Pricing, Contracting and Acquisition Policy at the Pentagon, sent the military’s buying commands a memo with “adaptable templates and standardized language to document, solicit, and enforce these Unbiased AI Principles in our procurements”, DefenseScoop reported. Compliance, he wrote, is mandatory.

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