How I long for the good old days of 2025, when it felt like the only people who had to worry about A.I. were writers, artists, designers, actors, musicians, analysts in any field, teachers, coders, editors, and tens of millions of back-office employees.
Did you know the Pentagon has now integrated A.I. into its operating systems? I didn’t, until the news broke in March that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth had officially declared Anthropic a “supply-chain risk” because the company declined to remove safety constraints from its Claude A.I. That’s in contrast to OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT, which has been more compliant with the administration’s demands. To be fair, I might very well prefer that ChatGPT or Claude or even Elon Musk’s Grok have its “finger” on the nuclear button over the current commander in chief, but that is a choice that speaks poorly of the present moment.
