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COMMENT: On Fri­day, Octo­ber 2^nd, Dave pre­sent­ed his first set of three Patre­on talks for Octo­ber.

Focus­ing on the sur­re­al atti­tude and result­ing man­i­fes­ta­tions of Pete Hegseth’s Depart­ment of War, DOGE grad­u­ate Gavin Kliger’s pri­ma­ry posi­tion as the Pentagon’s “AI guy,” as well as OpenAI’s and the Pentagon’s “less than can­did” respons­es to an FOIA suit seek­ing infor­ma­tion about require­ments for AI’s attached to weapons sys­tems, the talks presage what may be an acci­den­tal World War III.

An AI “hal­lu­ci­na­tion” presided over by mil­i­tary per­son­nel almost pre­cip­i­tat­ed an inci­dent which could have result­ed in World War III between the U.S. and Chi­na. Mis­tak­en­ly iden­ti­fy­ing the car­go of a Chi­nese ship as tech­no­log­i­cal com­po­nents for a nuclear weapon, the AI and human error set in motion mil­i­tary plans to board and (if nec­es­sary) fire on the Chi­nese ship.

Board­ing and/or seiz­ing a flagged-ves­sel of anoth­er coun­try is an act of war.

Younger mil­i­tary per­son­nel are more like­ly to be famil­iar with, and use, AI’s.

The results of the FOIA suit indi­cate that, indeed, the Pentagon’s arrange­ments with Ope­nAI pro­vide min­i­mum safe­guards over AI’s gov­ern­ing weapons sys­tems.

After dis­cussing the fact that the humans man­ag­ing AI sys­tems are the par­ties respon­si­ble for malfea­sance, the third talk delves into fright­en­ing aspects of Don­ald Trump’s atti­tude and behav­ior toward war.

Dis­cus­sion and Analy­sis Includes: Kliger’s socio­path­ic polit­i­cal behav­ior while work­ing for DOGE; Kliger’s affin­i­ty for Nazi and racist social media con­tent; The lax atti­tude of many toward the pos­si­bil­i­ty of nuclear war; Hegseth’s view that AI’s should be devel­oped as fast as pos­si­ble, dis­re­gard­ing fun­da­men­tal safe­ty fac­tors; The effect of vast amounts of Pen­ta­gon mon­ey on AI devel­op­ers; Eva­sive respons­es from Pen­ta­gon and AI rep­re­sen­ta­tives with regard to FOIA queries about the Depart­ment of War’s con­tracts with that firm; The hype sur­round­ing “The AI Apoc­a­lypse” and the imme­di­ate, apoc­a­lyp­tic dan­ger of AI-equipped weapons sys­tems end­ing human­i­ty; The con­trast between Chi­nese Pres­i­dent Xi Jinping’s atti­tude that AI’s must always be gov­erned by human oper­a­tors and the U.S. view of “Damn the Guardrails, Full Speed Ahead.”