"The Department of Defense is the country’s largest
employer, with more than 2.1 million Military Service
members and over 811 thousand civilian employees."
replyFrom https://comptroller.war.gov/Portals/45/Documents/afr/fy2024/...
Presumably the whole point of AI is that we can start reducing that number. I am sure there's a significant number of people just working on various administrative tasks processing data and documents.
replyThat's exactly what I want from the Pentagon, less real humans involved and more automated systems that don't even have the concept of morality and the social responsibility to be a potential whistleblower
replyWorked fine in The Terminator. Searching the the nasdaq for "Cyberdyne Systems" to add to my portfolio.
replyHell yeah let’s take the largest employer in the country and significantly eliminate jobs. Great for the economic jobs report and economy as a whole. I’m sure you’ll get a check in the mail with the savings.
replyThey still won’t pass an audit, ever.
Unless we're doing away with human accountability, the responsibility to accuracy (and whatever other statutory requirements) will remain the same, it will just be concentrated among significantly fewer federal employees.
replyEveryone is starting to use AI. I use three AIs daily. Why would the US military be different?
replyWell, you are not the Pentagon.
replyI presume they might view their internal data being used to train a private company's training sets as a concern.
There are a solutions, like Amazon Bedrock, that allow model usage with strict data control.
replyI think, assume. With the Military, with the goal of killing people, that there is assumption of more human judgment being involved. Beyond even the issue of a man-in-the-loop for targeting systems. But even generally, that these are big decisions that shouldn't be farmed out completely.
replyThere are 3 million people working in the US military.
replyVery few of them ever come close to killing anyone.
Mostly they're white collar workers doing regular desk jobs, where AI is just as useful as in other industries.
A military is usually a big supply chain operation with an attached small war fighting branch
replyHow many of your tasks decide whether entire populations of human beings live or die?
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