| ▲ | jmyeet 2 hours ago | |
Companies inevitably reach a state where the only way to satiate the need for ever-increasing profits is by: 1. Raising prices; or 2. Cutting costs. Every use of AI falls into one of these. Demand pricing? Raising prices. Replacing people with AI systems? Cutting costs. But I really have to add a third to this list: 3. Weapons. Recently there's been reporting on how the Minot school bombing happened at the onset of the Iran War eg [1]. Humans normally have to be involved in target selection and the so-called "kill chain" as a safeguard. There are open questions here about how this happened. It's unclear if the human verification failed here or was bypassed by new policy. As another example, there are the AI targeting systems (eg Lavender, Where's Daddy?) used in Gaza [2]. So if you're working for any of these companies (eg OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceX), you need to realize what it'll be used for: to more efficiently kill people. It's no different to working for RTX, Boeing or Lockheed Martin. As for the NSA, I've always been skeptical about the claims that the NSA records everything, simply because of the infrastructure required to do that. Networking, storage, physical server space, water for cooing, etc. Also, what good is it because nobody can possibly review it? But AI to the rescue! It's entirely reasonable to assume that every communication at some near future point will be intercepted, processed, tagged and logged by some government AI system. [1]: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blam... | ||