The Department of War is making a huge mistake

Large language models are probably not currently being used in mission-critical ways, but this will change within 20 years, when 99% of the workforce will be AIs. Our future civilization will run on AI labor. We need to think through some extremely important questions about who this future workforce will be accountable and aligned to, and who gets to determine that. The only way to preserve a free society is to make laws and norms saying it is unacceptable for the government to use AI to enforce mass surveillance, censorship, and control. Individual acts of corporate courage will not solve the problem.