[HissingMachine]

So is this the way the government takes control of the AI, next OpenAI will have new but familiar owners from Raytheon and the other Pentagon crowd?

[astrange]

Governments don't need to "take control" of things, they get tax payments and can pass laws.

The US has never spent less on its military than it does now, and the military industrial complex has never been less important, because the rest of the economy has grown so much larger. So it's funny to see people still using Cold War-era conspiracy theories from when it actually mattered.

[HissingMachine]

Where is the conspiracy theory?

[malfist]

Postulating crazy conspiracy theories is no way to go through life

[HissingMachine]

Where is the conspiracy theory?

[andrewstuart]

It’ll be far more mundane than a spy novel plot.