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Re:US and UK refuse to sign AI safety declaration at summit by tsimionescu on Thursday February 13, 2025 @03:11AM (#43033834)
This is an extremely reductive and bleak way of looking at states. While military is of course a major focus of states, it is very far from being the only one. States both historically and today invest massive amounts of resources in culture, civil engineering (roads, bridges, sanitation, electrical grids, etc), medicine, and many other endeavors. Even the software industry still makes huge amounts of money from the state, a sizable portion is propped up by non-military government contracts (like Microsoft selling Windows, Office, and SharePoint to virtually all of the world's administrations).

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