• trailee@sh.itjust.works
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      20 hours ago

      Oh don’t worry, they’re working on it!

      while America was obsessively watching the latest bizarre twists in Trump’s Iran debacle, Whiskey Pete’s Pentagon rolled out a $1.5 trillion budget request that contained a line item almost nobody’s talking about: a 24,000 percent increase, from $225 million last year to $54.6 billion this year, for an outfit called the Defense Autonomous Warfare Group.

      That’s the largest year-over-year jump for any program in the entire defense budget, and it’s earmarked to build out AI-driven autonomous human-killing systems inside the Special Operations Command headquartered at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida.

      Once the Terminators are working well enough in the battlefield, they can easily be expanded to “help” with domestic law enforcement, immigration removal, and suppression of protest (which is now terrorism).

      Unrestricted obedience is at the heart of the dispute between Anthropic and Hegseth earlier this year.