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Reaction converging AI Giants Work Hand-in-Hand With the Pentagon, Contracts Reveal Concern & critique · 3 attributable reactions
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Established AI field signal Development 18d ago
⚡ 6 h early
AI companies Pentagon contracts revealed

AI Giants Work Hand-in-Hand With the Pentagon, Contracts Reveal

3 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

3 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Hypervisible AI Now Institute Sam Biddle
How the network is reacting 3 experts are independently emphasizing concern & critique.
Reaction converging

Concern & critique

3 experts

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

““What’s particularly notable is the terms by which engineers are working in lockstep with the department of war to engineer AI systems for surveillance, targeting, and killing.””

Primary source theintercept.com ↗
Established Culture, work & education Development 19d ago
⚡ 4 h early
Pentagon requests OpenAI permissive AI system

The Pentagon Asked OpenAI for Artificial Intelligence Designed to Rarely Say No

3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

3 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Justin Hendrix Sam Biddle Alejandra Caraballo

“"The Department of Defense asked OpenAI to provide the U.S. military with a special version of its artificial intelligence technology designed to turn down the military commands as infrequently as possible, according to documents obtained by The Intercept."”

“The documents I obtained include an OpenAI contract with the Pentagon requiring that the military AI it sold to Hegseth would maximally comply with the military's commands. The story behind this doc became very strange (thread) theintercept.com/2026/09/08/p...”

Primary source theintercept.com ↗
New Culture, work & education Signal 3h ago

AI Almost Started a U.S.–China War — and No One Seems to Care

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Sam Biddle

“I wrote about something that was making me feel nuts: After weeks of discourse around hypothetical existential threats from AI triggered global calls for government intervention, we learned a faulty AI system almost triggered a US-China war. And no one real…”

Primary source theintercept.com ↗