Pentagon taps former DOGE official to lead its AI efforts
The Straits Times
Gavin Kliger has boosted white supremacists and misogynists online. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon on March 6 named as chief data officer a computer scientist who aided billionaire Elon Musk’s efforts to overhaul the government in 2025 and who has boosted white supremacists and misogynists online.
In a social media post, the Pentagon said Mr Gavin Kliger’s new role “places him at the centre of the department’s most ambitious AI efforts,” focusing on “day-to-day alignment and execution of the department’s AI projects, working directly with America’s frontier AI labs to support the warfighter.”
The Pentagon did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for more comment.
Mr Kliger did not immediately return a message.
Mr Kliger, in social media posts between October 2024 and January 2025, has voiced controversial views and reposted content from white supremacist Nick Fuentes and self-described misogynist Andrew Tate.
The Pentagon’s use of artificial intelligence has taken centre stage, after a heated weeks-long dispute with Anthropic over guardrails on how the military can use its AI tools led to last week’s decision by the Trump administration to shun the company and replace it with OpenAI.
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