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Amy McGrath

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1803 total appearances

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Truth in the Barrel
Ukraine, The Unreality Of SOTU, and "Woke" AI w Bobby Jones

How bad is our democracy right now when the president of the United States stands up there and says to the world that the opposition party in America can't win an election unless they cheat or buy fraud.

Truth in the Barrel
Ukraine, The Unreality Of SOTU, and "Woke" AI w Bobby Jones

And all while Republicans stand up and clap for it.

Truth in the Barrel
Ukraine, The Unreality Of SOTU, and "Woke" AI w Bobby Jones

What doesn't make sense, Bobby, I mean, he was in power in 2020.

Truth in the Barrel
Ukraine, The Unreality Of SOTU, and "Woke" AI w Bobby Jones

So somehow tell me how the 2020 election was rigged when Republicans are in power.

Truth in the Barrel
Ukraine, The Unreality Of SOTU, and "Woke" AI w Bobby Jones

But then when Democrats are in power in 2024, when Donald Trump won, somehow that's not right.

Truth in the Barrel
Ukraine, The Unreality Of SOTU, and "Woke" AI w Bobby Jones

I mean, the logic there is bonkers.

Truth in the Barrel
Ukraine, The Unreality Of SOTU, and "Woke" AI w Bobby Jones

Well, Bobby, there's a really important story that also is being underreported, and I want to get your take on it, especially with your background working with the Missile Defense Agency.

Truth in the Barrel
Ukraine, The Unreality Of SOTU, and "Woke" AI w Bobby Jones

You were a very decorated Navy officer, surface warfare officer, but you've done a lot of tours doing lots of different really cool stuff, okay?

Truth in the Barrel
Ukraine, The Unreality Of SOTU, and "Woke" AI w Bobby Jones

And the future...

Truth in the Barrel
Ukraine, The Unreality Of SOTU, and "Woke" AI w Bobby Jones

Not only for all of us and the future of tech and, you know, the future of warfare is AI.

Truth in the Barrel
Ukraine, The Unreality Of SOTU, and "Woke" AI w Bobby Jones

And this week, there's this issue between the Department of Defense, namely the Secretary of Defense or Secretary of War, whatever he wants to call himself, and an AI company called Anthropic.

Truth in the Barrel
Ukraine, The Unreality Of SOTU, and "Woke" AI w Bobby Jones

And so what's this all about?

Truth in the Barrel
Ukraine, The Unreality Of SOTU, and "Woke" AI w Bobby Jones

Pete Hegseth, who is unfortunately our Secretary of Defense, he wants this private AI company โ€“

Truth in the Barrel
Ukraine, The Unreality Of SOTU, and "Woke" AI w Bobby Jones

to drop its own safety guardrails, okay?

Truth in the Barrel
Ukraine, The Unreality Of SOTU, and "Woke" AI w Bobby Jones

Or he'll say if they don't do what he wants, the Pentagon will then cancel this private company's $200 million contract to work with the Pentagon and force that company

Truth in the Barrel
Ukraine, The Unreality Of SOTU, and "Woke" AI w Bobby Jones

He wants to force the company to tailor its model of artificial intelligence to the military's needs.

Truth in the Barrel
Ukraine, The Unreality Of SOTU, and "Woke" AI w Bobby Jones

So there's a lot going on there, right?

Truth in the Barrel
Ukraine, The Unreality Of SOTU, and "Woke" AI w Bobby Jones

And people need to know that tech companies that develop AI and the people that develop AI โ€“

Truth in the Barrel
Ukraine, The Unreality Of SOTU, and "Woke" AI w Bobby Jones

do have some serious ethical concerns with that technology.

Truth in the Barrel
Ukraine, The Unreality Of SOTU, and "Woke" AI w Bobby Jones

In this case, that company and its developers do not want their work, their technology, to be used in what they consider potentially unethical ways, like massive government spying on its own citizens, which could happen,