Silicon Ranks: Four Big‑Tech CTOs Quietly Commissioned as Army Lt. Cols — and Why the Public Never Heard About It

AI is being rapidly integrated into military systems.

Last week, four of the most powerful figures in the AI and technology world were quietly sworn in as Lieutenant Colonels in the U.S. Army Reserve. The appointees—Shyam Sankar (CTO, Palantir), Andrew Bosworth (CTO, Meta), Kevin Weil (CPO, OpenAI), and Bob McGrew (advisor at Thinking Machines Lab)—now wear real military rank as part of a specialized unit, Detachment 201.

This appointment was barely covered—Wired, WSJ, and Business Insider reported it, but no major cable or broadcast news channels did. No CNN, Fox, or MSNBC. No congressional hearings. No prime-time debates. The silence is significant. These figures are now positioned at the intersection of AI, military command, and federal data fusion. One is a Palantir executive, another a key OpenAI product lead, another tied to human–machine military interface development.

The appointments occurred alongside efforts to eliminate federal data silos, expand ICE enforcement with DoD support, and suppress AI regulation at the state level via a new House-passed bill. The implications are profound—yet the public remains unaware.

This isn’t just symbolic; it’s structural. And the press largely ignored it.