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I don't see the US restricting AI development. No matter what is morally right or wrong, this is strategically important, and they won't kneecap themselves in the global competition.
Strategically important how exactly?
Great power competition / military industrial complex . AI is a pretty vague term, but practically it could be used to describe drone swarming technology, cyber warfare, etc.
LLM-based chatbot and image generators are the types of "AI" that rely on stealing people's intellectual property. I'm struggling to see how that applies to "drone swarming technology." The only obvious use case is in the generation of propaganda.
You could use LLM like AI to go through vast amounts of combat data to make sense of it on the field and analyze data from mass surveillance. I doubt they need much more excuses.
Case could be made tech bros have overhyped the importance of AI to military industrial complex but it nevertheless has plenty of nasty uses.
It is indeed. I would guess that's the game, and is already happening.