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Michael: AI labs' apocalyptic rhetoric justifies strict Pentagon scrutiny of management
“So these companies are talking about their things in apocalyptic terms, which make it necessary for us to judge the management teams, judge their actions,
Look at the terms of service.
Understand how they fit in our supply chain.
This technology is like nothin…”
Michael: AI enables drone threat discrimination far beyond human capacity
“You could do much more, be more precise, be more specific about what you're going after, what you're defending how you know, and the precision is really what's interesting to me because if you can use AI to detect and discriminate and, by discriminate, I mean,…”
Michael: Defending against cheap drones requires affordable mass-attritable systems
“And to protect your exquisite targets on your side against a very cheap drone, you have to use expensive countermeasures. And so the lesson there is how do you turn the dial from, maybe we should have more mass attritable, Weapons like drones or counter drones…”