[ExI] OpenAI Reaches A.I. Agreement With Defense Dept. After Anthropic Clash

[John Clark]

On Sat, Feb 28, 2026 at 6:09 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

> *>>> **Do you have a clearance? *
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>> *>> Nope. Do you?*
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> *>No, and that’s the point. *
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*A top-secret clearance is not necessary to use logic, and your theory just
doesn't make any sense.  *


> *> The US military (and every other military) has not been sitting on its
> hands worrying about AI for the past three decades. *
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*The military HAS been sitting on their hands, but they have not been
worrying about AI, I doubt if they even knew how to spell it. Geoffrey
Hinton and John Hopfield recently won a Nobel prize for work they did in
the field of AI in the 1980s, do you really think there  were hundreds or
thousands of people with similar or even greater ability that were willing
to work for the military for peanuts that we know nothing about?
Ridiculous!*

*> We know DARPA has been funding AI research for some time.*
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*Pocket change. *


>  > * It has a lot of money and a lot of computing resources. *
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*Baloney! What computing resources? You can't keep a $20 billion AI data
center that uses as much electricity as a small city secret, if the
military had such a thing we would know about it. *

*> You can be sure that those creating military AI weapons must know
> exactly what is in their training.  Otherwise they couldn’t trust them.*


*Spike, the thing about modern AI is that nobody understands exactly how
they work, certainly not the military.  *


*John K Clark*
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