Alright guy, I'll bite. Why do _you_ think that Boeing off-loaded manufacturing burden to 3rd party companies? Their executives have effectively gutted the company over the last 20 years. Now we're left with a bailed-out husk the government literally _cannot_ afford to let go out of business.
I have a little brother. And while I would say we are close, I always wonder how he feels about me. I was not nice to him growing up, and it created a lot of resentment. One day I apologized to him about it, and I remember him seeing tear up out of the corner of my eye.
The day that I think changed our relationship we went on a hike together. While we were driving there he had a bunch of anxiety about it, and wanted to back out. I managed to convince him to come with me and just let all his feelings out; he just yelled at me the entire drive there about a lot of different things. Including my treatment of him.
That hike to this day was the best I've ever been on. Everybody has a different relationship with their brother, but I genuinely do not and cannot imagine this existence without mine. He understands me in ways that nobody else does. He gets my jokes that nobody else does. Having a brother you are close with just _almost_ proves you don't die alone.
I've got a younger sister with whom I've had a great relationship for most of my life with. She gets my jokes like nobody else just as your brother gets yours. She's been the first person I've tried to make laugh. Even now when we hang out, she's my favorite "audience" member to be silly around. Luckily, we live right across the street from eachother and see eachother multiple times a week.
I hope your last sentence resonates with her as it does with us!
My wife and I bought a house across the street from my sister in 2016. I was really reluctant to do it, to be honest; I thought I was getting myself into an Everybody Loves Raymond situation where she'd be popping into our home uninvited all the time. But she moved away a few years ago, and we miss seeing her every day. We miss my little niece and nephew running around outside screaming, or running across the street to tell us about a toad they found or something their dad is doing. We even miss her annoying little dogs constantly getting off their chains so they could run across the street and into our backyard where our dogs would go ballistic.
Luckily I'm in the same situation with my younger sister. Unfortunately she lives several hundred kilometers from me but we are in contact regularly and sometimes we even go on vacation together.
Hard to say why it was downvoted but I can say it’s a highly unlikely scenario. You typically need a security clearance to view classified info.
Further, many employees at OpenAI may not even be US citizens, and even if they are, many others aren’t super enthusiastic about giving the Pentagon new toys to use.
For dual-use tech, its relatively common to have a small "government" division alongside the much larger commercial division. If the only difference for government is fine tuning data/DoD servers - it shouldn't cost OpenAI much to support.
People are escalating AI to strategic/end of world tier of dual use tech. Questionable if it will be treated the same way. OpenAI is not lockheed, but question is how much they value Pentagon contracts or really gov connections especially with all the regulation talk.
There will certainly be DARPA and other grants to test if dedicated defense suppliers make sense. In some areas, the funding model may be easier as a pure defense initiative where the DoD could shell out 50-100 Billion for cross-service AI functionality.
In theory there is no reason why an individual soldier shouldn't be able to order an air strike, or be informed about inbound strikes on their position and how to react to those. Today, this is not possible due to the complex decisioning process for whether a target is worth a strike by X munition vs. Y munition and when. AI could simplify this process.
On the other hand, well funded open source and commercial companies may deliver faster and with higher quality. The DoD doesn't use bespoke databases, and microchips for a reason (except when they do).
Because that's American NatSec for you. They rather train a white kid from Iowa to read Chinese poorly and do even worse analysis than risk giving advantage to adversaries. The domestic politics of latter is more unforgiving. Also see China Initiative persecuting PRC scholars. Pentagon contracts will come with strings attached, hidden or otherwise.
I can't count the number of times I have seen Chinese people abroad having their family back at home punished for criticizing the CCP or taking other stances that the government oppose.
Doing a quick search, I found several articles detailing how this is becoming more common, with this story being the first one I recalled as the video is nauseating:
https://www.voanews.com/a/east-asia-pacific_china-tries-muff...
"Editor’s Note: China’s government is expanding its censorship controls by targeting Chinese citizens overseas who criticize Beijing on social media. The pressure tactic is called “zhulian” – an ancient punishment meaning “guilt by association.” It usually involves police threatening family members in China for the actions of their relatives overseas.
This happened to “Zoo” (short for @HorrorZoo, her main handle on Twitter), a Chinese student pursuing graduate studies in Australia, whose father has been repeatedly summoned to the police station because of her criticism of Chinese Communist Party leaders on social media.
But instead of censoring her Twitter account, “Zoo” has become more outspoken, providing multiple videos of police intimidating her via video chat. Her story provides a rare look at how China tries to use the families of dissidents to silence them."
Another instance:
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/overseas-chinese-1021...
"Police in Beijing have contacted the family of a Chinese student studying in the United States after he expressed support online for the "Bridge Man" protester, who unfurled banners on a Beijing bridge calling on ruling Chinese leader Xi Jinping to step down on the eve of the 20th Communist party’s congress."
I'm sure I could find hundreds of these - it has nothing to do with loyalty, and everything to do with external sources of pressure and coercion.
All this talk of data and I have yet to see _anything_.