{"id":15948,"date":"2024-11-04T23:57:51","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T00:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=15948"},"modified":"2024-11-05T01:30:18","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T01:30:18","slug":"meta-permits-its-a-i-models-to-be-used-for-u-s-military-purposes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=15948","title":{"rendered":"Meta Permits Its A.I. Models to Be Used for U.S. Military Purposes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The shift in policy, covering government agencies and contractors working on national security, is intended to promote \u201cresponsible and ethical\u201d innovations, the company said.<\/p>\n

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Meta will allow U.S. government agencies and contractors working on national security to use its artificial intelligence models for military purposes, the company said<\/a> on Monday, in a shift from its policy that prohibited the use of its technology for such efforts.<\/p>\n

Meta said that it would make its A.I. models, called Llama, available to federal agencies and that it was working with defense contractors such as Lockheed Martin and Booz Allen as well as defense-focused tech companies including Palantir and Anduril. The Llama models are \u201copen source,\u201d which means the technology can be freely copied and distributed by other developers, companies and governments.<\/p>\n

Meta\u2019s move is an exception to its \u201cacceptable use policy<\/a>,\u201d which forbade the use of the company\u2019s A.I. software for \u201cmilitary, warfare, nuclear industries,\u201d among other purposes.<\/p>\n

In a blog post on Monday, Nick Clegg, Meta\u2019s president of global affairs, said the company now backed \u201cresponsible and ethical uses\u201d of the technology that supported the United States and \u201cdemocratic values\u201d in a global race for A.I. supremacy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cMeta wants to play its part to support the safety, security and economic prosperity of America \u2014 and of its closest allies too,\u201d Mr. Clegg wrote. He added that \u201cwidespread adoption of American open source A.I. models serves both economic and security interests.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Meta spokesman said the company would share its technology with members of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance: Canada, Britain, Australia and New Zealand in addition to the United States. Bloomberg earlier reported<\/a> that Meta\u2019s technology would be shared with the Five Eyes countries.<\/p>\n

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The shift in policy, covering government agencies and contractors working on national security, is intended to promote \u201cresponsible and ethical\u201d innovations, the company said.Meta will allow U.S. government agencies and contractors working on national security to use its artificial intelligence models for military purposes, the company said on Monday, in a shift from its policy that prohibited the use of its technology for such efforts.Meta said that it would make its A.I. models, called Llama, available to federal agencies and that it was working with defense contractors such as Lockheed Martin and Booz Allen as well as defense-focused tech companies including Palantir and Anduril. The Llama models are \u201copen source,\u201d which means the technology can be freely copied and distributed by other developers, companies and governments.Meta\u2019s move is an exception to its \u201cacceptable use policy,\u201d which forbade the use of the company\u2019s A.I. software for \u201cmilitary, warfare, nuclear industries,\u201d among other purposes.In a blog post on Monday, Nick Clegg, Meta\u2019s president of global affairs, said the company now backed \u201cresponsible and ethical uses\u201d of the technology that supported the United States and \u201cdemocratic values\u201d in a global race for A.I. supremacy.\u201cMeta wants to play its part to support the safety, security and economic prosperity of America \u2014 and of its closest allies too,\u201d Mr. Clegg wrote. He added that \u201cwidespread adoption of American open source A.I. models serves both economic and security interests.\u201dA Meta spokesman said the company would share its technology with members of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance: Canada, Britain, Australia and New Zealand in addition to the United States. Bloomberg earlier reported that Meta\u2019s technology would be shared with the Five Eyes countries.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15950,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15948"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15951,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15948\/revisions\/15951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}