“The former CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, now executive chairman of its parent company Alphabet, is about to start helping the military improve what it does by borrowing concepts and ideas straight from Silicon Valley,” Kirsty Styles reports for TNW. “Schmidt will chair the new 12-person Defense Innovation Advisory Board, which is being brought in to help the organization use tools like ‘rapid prototyping, iterative product development, complex data analysis… mobile and cloud applications.'”
“The remaining board members will be chosen by Schmidt,” Styles reports. “Yes, the head of one of the world’s most powerful companies, which has a probably unparalleled, intimate knowledge of all of our lives, is about to start advising the military on how to improve its business practice. The business of killing people, that is.”
“Apart from the worrying realization that the military doesn’t quite grasp what the cloud is yet, this is potentially the most frightening thing I’ve ever heard,” Styles writes. “Google owns human-like robots, artificial intelligence that’s nearly as smart as humans and it definitely knows where you’re going to hide.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Just when you thought King Creepster couldn’t get any creepier. Ta-da!
Full “Statement by Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook on the Establishment of the Defense Innovation Advisory Board” here.
SEE ALSO:
Eric Schmidt-backed startup stealthily working to put Hillary Clinton in the White House – October 9, 2015
Did Google’s Eric Schmidt just call Apple’s Tim Cook a liar? – June 19, 2015
Google averages one White House meeting per week during Obama administration – March 25, 2015
Eric Schmidt says Google ‘far more secure’ than Apple, denies harvesting data – October 3, 2014
Google’s Eric Schmidt: Drones should be banned from private use – December 6, 2013
Eric Schmidt on Android: ‘It’s more secure than the iPhone’ – October 8, 2013
Obama to reward Google’s Schmidt with Cabinet post? – December 5, 2012
Consumer Watchdog calls for probe of Google’s inappropriate relationship with Obama administration – January 25, 2011
37 states join probe into Google’s questionable Wi-Fi data collection – July 22, 2010
Google Street View Wi-Fi data included passwords and email – June 18, 2010
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Jeff.L” for the heads up.]
Teach the military to tell us “It’s a feature.”
A mole inside the military what could this possibly mean?
-Gives a whole new meaning to back door.
– Improvements in the “aim for Bin Laden hit Saddam Hussein” missile guidance system.
– A whole chain of Guantanamo on the Bay resorts across the country with the motto “From see to see.”
– Apple losing it’s appeal at the U.S. Supreme Court over $450 million e-book case (hey I know it’s far fetched but this is humorous satire).
– Laser beamed glassholes.
– Self driving drones, all coordinated by a new system called cloudnet.
All this and much much more so stay tuned folks.
Watch out, Pentagon! Eric Mole may steal your secrets and use them against you! Just ask Apple…
What secrets is Schmidt going to steal from the Pentagon, I wonder….
I’d be more concerned about ideas finding their way out of the military and into the next half baked Google beta product.
I wonder what secrets he will steal from the Pentagon now that he is on the board?
Oops! Just a bit slow to get that post up. Sorry for the apparent copy of your post Necromus.
Things just get progressively worse with each passing day.
It just goes to show how much the Pentagon appreciates Google.
What does that tell you, folks?
The new Android… now with more holes than ever before… the government will be happy to fill them for you.
Great, the soldiers will have to watch ads before they can use their tech. Or, each base will be a Google hangout.
Turn off location services in your Android phone!
““Google owns… artificial intelligence that’s nearly as smart as humans”
No, I don’t think that is true. We’ve got a long way to go before that can be said.
I fear for a military that relies on Google’s half-baked, perpetual beta products. And I fear for the world when that military is the mightiest of all militaries around the planet, the US military…
He still won’t be Tony Stark.
Such a conflict of interest.