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People wonder why execs, not people with actual tech skills. I'll wager that for the military/government, this is not really about what skills those people brin
by TeMPOraL 1y ago
People wonder why execs, not people with actual tech skills. I'll wager that for the military/government, this is not really about what skills those people bring in - it's about that accepting this role puts them under jurisdiction of military justice, and suddenly all kinds of things that are business-as-usual when e.g. dealing with foreign powers, could become potential UCMJ offenses.
Call me conspiracy theorist if you like, but this looks to me like US Gov seeking to put a leash on the tech/AI companies, by tricking execs into getting personally exposed for things that would otherwise qualify as private business. Strategically, that's worth way more than just getting some FAANG engineers as part-time advisors.
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 1y agoI had this same thought reading some other comments. It doesn’t seem much of a conspiratorial stretch.
- dugmartin 1y agoFor engineers it would make sense to bring them in as warrant officers which is where you put technical experts that don’t lead.
- esseph 1y ago"When their AI system went wrong and caused that massacre and required a sortie of F-35s to neutralize, we immediately took internal accountability and started processing them through the UCMJ. This kind of thing will never happen again, we are making sure of it."