Darren Farber
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard 26 May
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And then the models pick it up.
And one in particular, one test of this was someone invented.
A phenomena, or I think they invented a medical condition and left it out on an academic website posted for about three months and then asked a large model.
And then it said, You have this disease, and you made it up.
This disease.
We're talking right now about the power of AI and its ability to do all this compute and it's smarter than us.
But if we co-opt it, the danger of co-opting these models when they become part
of the loop of decision making in these important military systems.
Can you imagine if you can create a foundation of fact that is wrong?
for a model.
I could see an alternative universe where the models become complete towers of Babel.
We've lost them because of what they've imputed through the junk that we've posted.
We're in a very topical moment right now, just by virtue of what appears to be this decoupling from this ultra longstanding relationship that's existed since immediately after World War II, which is to say borders did not change in the Western world through force for the last 80 years. And we're seeing that paradigm change.
And so that's a pretty big change, but I completely understand why we're going through it. And so let's say you and I have a contract. I'm going to mow your lawn for the next 80 years and you're never going to pay me or you're going to pay me sporadically. So if you don't pay into the system, then who's invalidated the contract?
Should I have the reasonable expectation that you're going to honor your obligations if I refuse to pay into the system? And you have an administration that views that kind of contractual compact as meaningful. These are deal people, fundamentally. They come from business. And so... They view themselves as completely justified. You're breaking the contract.
And so what's my general obligation to you? And I don't think they're incorrect. And so it leads to this real, very serious moment that we're experiencing right now. And so now the question becomes, the Europeans' defense capability is extremely limited. Their nuclear capability is limited to ICBMs, which is really end of the world security. nuclear weaponry. There's nothing tactical in that.
That's only good when whatever video game scenario, it's the end of the world. In terms of the projection of force, Europe really doesn't have a lot. They've exclusively relied on the United States. And now I think they're having this moment where they realize, okay, maybe we exhausted the good offices here. And we need to power up and have our own capability. And it's going to take them a while.
It's not going to happen overnight.
It's warfighting. And so in the business mission area, the ball has moved forward, but not nearly enough in terms of where it needs to go in terms of the general efficiency of how we run the back office of the building. And in the front office, we have very pristine, exquisite weapon systems.
But some of the massing on the battlefield is going to be this very inexpensive, very permissive, autonomous capability that we're watching unfold in a live contingency in the Ukrainian theater. It's ironic because I had a whole series of dinners with Baltic ministers of defense, and they weren't asking me for drone technology from America.
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