"We're already AI'ing as fast as we can!" This sort of edict will result in wasteful spending and boondoggles that will make the front page of Hacker News a ye

"We're already AI'ing as fast as we can!" This sort of edict will result in wasteful spending and boondoggles that will make the front page of Hacker News a year from now. But it will also light a fire under some parts of government that have been slow to adopt AI, genuinely increase the level of AI sophistication across the military, and result in some actually valuable technology developments. It would be nice if there were a more efficient way to accomplish the good without the bad, but when time is of the essence, I'm not sure there is. Perhaps it's not all that different from VC investments: when an area is hot, many investments get made, most of which fail, but the ones that succeed hopefully justify it all.