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Re:Statement on US government directive to suspend access to... by SubiculumCode on Friday June 12, 2026 @09:23PM (#48511376)
You call it scare-mongering. Others, serious thinkers and leaders in the AI and national security space, believe, maybe not scare-mongering enough.

AI is a national security issue. Best accept that as fact, or you won't see it coming.

Re:Statement on US government directive to suspend access to... by karmasimida on Friday June 12, 2026 @09:31PM (#48511447)
Anthropic and US Government, there can be only one right in this situation.

I think David Sacks is right, if you are saying you are building nuclear bombs, then prepared to be regulated like one.

There is no eating it while having it

Re:Statement on US government directive to suspend access to... by LPisGood on Friday June 12, 2026 @09:50PM (#48511647)
I agree completely. If these things are so dangerous that they turn every person into an advanced persistent thread actor, capable of causing untold cyber destruction (oh, and they can make bio weapons etc), then they should be treated like the weapons they are.
Re:Statement on US government directive to suspend access to... by zugi on Saturday June 13, 2026 @02:07AM (#48513870)
> Anthropic and US Government, there can be only one right in this situation.

And just to be clear, that's a maximum of one right in this situation.

Re:Statement on US government directive to suspend access to... by mmh0000 on Friday June 12, 2026 @09:25PM (#48511394)
Yeah, LLMs are a national security issue on par with spellcheck.
Re:Statement on US government directive to suspend access to... by mensetmanusman on Friday June 12, 2026 @09:32PM (#48511454)
LLMs are piloting EM-proof kamakazi drones and destroying logistics networks today.
Re:Statement on US government directive to suspend access to... by nerfbatplz on Saturday June 13, 2026 @12:02AM (#48512934)
The real threat isn't the drones, it's the ability to generate a target bank. Historically militaries that are not just carpet bombing have been bottlenecked by target selection, humans can only review and authorize so many strikes. Now the AI will select the targets and the bottleneck moves to how many bombs you can build.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI-assisted_targeting_in_the_G...

Re:Statement on US government directive to suspend access to... by SubiculumCode on Saturday June 13, 2026 @02:51AM (#48514183)
Re:Statement on US government directive to suspend access to... by mmh0000 on Saturday June 13, 2026 @02:16PM (#48519937)
That video makes a lot of claims that sound reasonable, but doesn't provide data to back it up.

For example, in the first 30 seconds, he says that at the beginning of the Iran War, AI was used to strike 900 targets in 12 hours. Which he calls "unprecedented" but then never backs up.

For context, in the 1991 Gulf War "Operation Desert Storm" the U.S. struck about 1500 targets[1][2][3] in 12 hours.

[1] https://www.mitchellaerospacepower.org/app/uploads/2021/02/a... [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxRgfBXn6Mg&t=401s [3] https://gulfwar.org/gulf-war-1991-timeline-desert-storm/ -

Re:Statement on US government directive to suspend access to... by mmh0000 on Friday June 12, 2026 @10:01PM (#48511767)
And gps guided missiles were doing that since the 80s. Humans are already really good at killing each other. Yeah it sucks the tech will be used for that.

But it changes little.

Re:Statement on US government directive to suspend access to... by kaibee on Friday June 12, 2026 @10:27PM (#48512044)
iirc consumer grade GPS chips purposely become less accurate if they find themselves moving at high speed.
Re:Statement on US government directive to suspend access to... by SJC_Hacker on Saturday June 13, 2026 @01:43AM (#48513723)
Drones do not need to mov at high speed to be effective, as cam feeds from FPVs in the Russo-Ukrainian war have demonstrated
Re:Statement on US government directive to suspend access to... by zer00eyz on Friday June 12, 2026 @11:25PM (#48512607)
You're slightly off the mark here.

They are NOT "em-proof" --- what they are is electronic warfare immune.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2529849-fully-autonomou... Published this year, but talking about a trial 2 years ago.

Blocking any leading edge AI model changes nothing. We (humans) have a long history of determined attackers finding creative and unexpected solutions.

What the AI we have, the stuff that is already PUBLICLY AVAILABLE, is good enough to shrink the time for developing one of those creative solutions into a working tool/weapon.

Re:Statement on US government directive to suspend access to... by ygjb on Friday June 12, 2026 @09:48PM (#48511620)
Shh...you'll burst the bubble of the folks who think that LLMs are toy stochastic parrots...
Re:Statement on US government directive to suspend access to... by Freedom2 on Friday June 12, 2026 @10:40PM (#48512190)
Can you share any of these serious thinkers?
Re:Statement on US government directive to suspend access to... by zingababba on Friday June 12, 2026 @09:27PM (#48511408)
Right now it's basically this easy: 1. apex domain 2. ???? 3. critical PII exposure

There is /so/ much stuff on the internet that just needed someone to spend enough time on it.

Re:Statement on US government directive to suspend access to... by yogthos on Friday June 12, 2026 @09:25PM (#48511392)
Nobody with even a modicum of understanding of how LLMs work believes any of this. These 'serious thinkers' are just grifters preying on the feeble minded.
Re:Statement on US government directive to suspend access to... by faurroar on Saturday June 13, 2026 @01:14AM (#48513518)
Hinton and Bengio don't understand how LLMs work?
Re:Statement on US government directive to suspend access to... by yogthos on Saturday June 13, 2026 @09:19PM (#48523248)
They do, but they're not above grifting. Clearly people like you are their mark.