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"Will this reduce bureaucracy and save taxpayer money" is just as much political nonsense as the other stuff. Taxpayer money unspent is not an unalloyed good. Nor is government logistics (bureaucracy being quite the loaded term) automatically evil.

Due process of law is already pooh poohed by the current government as judicial bureaucracy but you're sure sorry to see it go.

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$1 trln+ of dollars on defence is not "nonsense". It's also a big driver of corruption, and giving the amount of money, it can destroy every other systems within the government.

Having AI in the mix could potentially fix the problem(partially).

> Having AI in the mix could potentially fix the problem(partially)

Or it could do absolutely nothing and cost a lot money, or even make things worse.

So, let’s do nothing?

In this case, yeah. Nothing is better than the government paying for the self-proclaimed mecha-hitler.

That's a pretty wild false dichotomy; you think that the only possible option for reducing corruption in the government in the defense industry is paying billionaires for their AI products?

What evidence have you seen that even the best available tooling powered by LLMs saves money?

> Having AI in the mix could potentially fix the problem(partially).

Any examples?

As far as I understand, claims in the current AI cycle are wildly exaggerated, and sometimes companies rely on sort of circular deals to make revenue appear higher than it actually is, e.g. OpenAI and Microsoft or Nvidia. Wouldn't that mean that AI companies are primed to oversell and underdeliver, effectively making the problem even worse?

An unbiased AI with access to all the military contracts would likely result in a lot of upset contractors who are used to scamming the government for as much as they can get away with. Grok by Musk (sounds like an awuful perfume!) is biased by design, not to mention the conflicts of interest.

AI is a big driver of literal direct physical corruption. Language and knowledge is forever tainted because of an outpouring of AI generated spam. Evaluating resumes is more difficult now because you can't tell real impacts versus fabricated hallucinations. Open source projects are overwhelmed with AI generated PRs...

Any corruption is emboldened by AI, it's a catalyst of the problem, doesn't seem anywhere close to potentially being a fix

Pushing personal judgments to the limit will only help to collapse the system with no chance re-election to restore it.

I don't understand how you don't see your second "real question" as a personal judgment

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