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U.S. Military Makes First Confirmed OpenAI Purchase for War-Fighting Forces
(theintercept.com)
A new exciting avenue to pour tax money into the pockets of billionaires, and this time even without any pesky hardware or, god forbid, production, just vapor.
So this is how we get Skynet in this timeline.
Regulating AI main purpose is to ensure all AI developers need to cooperate with US military/Empire. AI needs to provide disinformation against humanity if US empire is priority loyalty.