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The Pentagon is planning for AI companies to train on classified data, defense official says
- Occurred
- Mar 17, 2026
- Published
- Mar 17, 2026
- Source
- MIT Technology Review - AI
Summary
The Pentagon is discussing plans to set up secure environments for generative AI companies to train military-specific versions of their models on classified data, MIT Technology Review has learned. AI models like Anthropic’s Claude are already used to answer questions in classified settings; applications include analyzing targets in Iran. But allowing models to train on…
Tags
- Artificial intelligence
- App
- artificial intelligence
Classification
Category confidence: 85%
Severity confidence: 80%
Rationale: Pentagon plans for AI training on classified data raise transparency and security concerns without confirmed harm.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8