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

[Keith Henson]

The best example of a US government project that was kept under wraps
for a time was the Glomar Explorer and which eventually became public.
Look it up.

As to the military being all-knowing, I doubt they are any different
now from the spring of 1957. My dad, a Lt Col at the time and chief of
the scientific section of Army G2, was the highest person in the
military to know about Sputnik.  He knew from open sources and a staff
that read Russian what was going to happen in a few months.  He went
in to brief the general, who was the next level up, about the
impending satellite.

He was thrown out of the general's office and told to produce a report
that did not mention the USSR having the ability to launch an orbital
satellite, an impossible order.  So while the information was there,
it never propagated up the chain, resulting in the total surprise at
the presidential and national level when Sputnik started beeping
overhead.

We had moved to Ft Huachuca by that fall.  I still have a vivid memory
of breaking the news to my dad when he came home that evening.  His
comment, as best as I can remember, was that he was sure glad he
wasn't in the Pentagon anymore because the flapping must have been
incredible, but he did say that there were people whom he could shake
a finger at and say, "I told you so."  Years later, when it had long
cooled off, he told me the story of the aborted briefing.

There may have been people in the military who understood AI, but I
utterly doubt they had any better luck than my dad in drawing
high-level attention to it before ChatGPT came out.  Certainly, the US
military has not built an AI training center on the scale Musk did in
Memphis, and it would be obvious from Nvidia's sales reports, on the
ground, and from orbit.  Building it in a remote location would be
worse; first, you would have to build living space for construction
workers.

Keith


Keith

On Tue, Mar 3, 2026 at 4:13 PM spike jones via extropy-chat
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> On Tue, 3 Mar 2026 at 22:45, spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> Adrian what do you suppose the US Space Force is doing?  …
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> BillK, in all that info, there are PLENTY of places to hide projects they don’t talk about.  I don’t doubt they are doing some of the stuff listed below.  Example, the Golden Dome is real for sure.
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> The United States Space Force (USSF) is currently managing a diverse portfolio of projects ranging from advanced orbital combat training and next-generation missile defense to the modernization of ground-based satellite control infrastructure. Established in 2019, the service is transitioning from inheriting legacy Air Force systems to developing its own "purpose-built" capabilities designed for a contested space environment.[1] [4]…
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