The Pentagon’s AI Chief Is ‘Scared to Death’ of ChatGPT

Large language models and generative artificial intelligence agents like ChatGPT have captured the public’s attention, but the Defense Department’s chief digital and AI officer, said he worries about the profound havoc that such tools could wreak across society. 

“I’m scared to death,” about how people might use ChatGPT and other consumer-facing AI agents, Craig Martell said Wednesday.

Such tools, which can respond to simple prompts with long text answers, have raised concerns about the end of academic essays and have even been floated as a better way to answer medical patient…