How do rich AI execs become Lt. Colonels while poor veterans and their widows lose their benefits? Follow the money!

Follow the money

• CTO’s at Meta, Open AI, Palantir became Lieutenant colonels in the army - American Citizen

• A more serious consequence might come from these men having dual loyalty when setting policy at their private companies.

• The four new officers are full members of the Army Reserve. Unlike other reservists, however, they will not be required to undergo basic training, though they will undergo less immersive fitness and shooting training after induction.

• They will also have the flexibility to spend some of the approximately 120 annual hours working remotely, a perk not offered to other reservists. - Wired

• Mark Zuckerberg (Meta), Peter Thiel (Palantir) and Sam Altman (Open AI) all donate to Trump - CCN

Follow the money

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Men having dual loyalty

“A more serious consequence might come from these men having dual loyalty when setting policy at their private companies. Companies like Meta, Open AI, and Thinking Machines Lab are helping create superintelligence that could profoundly impact the world. Four Silicon Valley executives being inducted into a special detachment of the United States Army Reserve. - Wired

• Meta CTO Andrew “Boz” Bosworth

• Kevin Weil, OpenAI’s head of product

• Bob McGrew, a former OpenAI head of research now advising Mira Murati’s company Thinking Machines Lab

• Shyam Sankar, the CTO of Palantir

Politicizing the military

"Federal military forces are usually barred from enforcing civilian laws by the Posse Comitatus Act. This prohibition reflects a tradition in American law and political thought that views an army turned inward as an inherent threat to democracy and individual liberty. But the Posse Comitatus Act is not an absolute rule. It allows federal troops to participate in law enforcement when doing so has been expressly authorized by Congress.

The Insurrection Act provides that authorization. The intent behind the act is to allow the president to use the military to assist civilian authorities when they are overwhelmed by an insurrection, rebellion, or other civil unrest, or to enforce civil rights laws when state or local governments can’t or won’t enforce them. In such cases, a narrow exception to the general rule against using the military for law enforcement makes good sense. The problem is that the Insurrection Act creates a giant loophole in the Posse Comitatus Act rather than a limited exception to it." - Brennan Center

Takeaway: Protect veterans' benefits for those who have served and died for America - not to make tech fat cats even richer.

Deepak
DemLabs

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