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Comment by ocdtrekkie | Hacker News Reader

It's very likely if there were a legitimate threat or need for the technology, employee opinion on helping the military would likely change. China and Russia are regularly highlighted as the bogeymen in these scenarios, but how many people realistically would suggest either is likely to say... invade or fire on the United States?

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So, unless the US is faced with imminent invasion, they should stick their heads in the sand?

China is in the process of forcibly taking over an enormous chunk of geography in the south china sea. They have fired on and intimidated their neighbors such as Vietnam and Philippines in connection with this. They continue to undermine and isolate Taiwan. They are a big part of why N Korea has nuclear weapons and ICBMs.

Russia is illegally occupying a big chunk of Ukraine, is involved in shooting down civilian airliners, and assassinating people they don't like with chemical weapons.

At what point would it be advisable to see a trend and try to do something about it?

My personal view is that neither China's interest in the South China Sea nor Russia's interest in the Ukraine constitute an interest in attacking the United States. Both represent territory close to them and far from us.

False Dilemma. Direct invasion is not the only option available to a sufficiently advanced, large scale AI attack. Think of how many ways you can mess with elections, opinions, security, etc. of a target nation without being detected.