Worse, a redefinition of what "socially acceptable" even means.

That never stopped any know-it-all from dunning-krugering.

> ChatGPT is not "intelligence", so please don't call it "AI".

I've been saying the same thing for years, but it's utterly hopeless by now. Even the critics use that ludicrous "AI" moniker.

Isn't that burying the lede on a technicality?

> And barely anyone shares a thought like "technology should be warranted by the populace, not the other way around?"

It shines through that the most fervent AI Believers are also Haters of Humans.

And an admiral who felt threatened by two drowning people clinging to a piece of debris. I'll never be tough like this.

Because that's the only logical alternative? If this were truly the mission it claimed to be, they would capture and interrogate them obviously.

I mean, it would be better. The other option is to take them out of water. There is no universe where the only option to deal with shipwrecked people is to kill them.

In a war situation, which this was not, this is a war crime.

Or do what they did in subsequent murder attempts when there were survivors: pick them up alive and return them from whence they came.

> but everyone I’ve spoken to is happy — if not downright giddy — at the news that Lemay is replacing Dye.

Count me in.

As others have noted, reality has become indistinguishable from satire.

Exactly. Microsoft for instance got a noticeable backlash for cramming AI everywhere, and their future plans in that direction.