The challenge is that the ascendant engineering elite in Silicon Valley that is most capable of building the artificial intelligence systems that will be the deterrent of this century is also most ambivalent about working for the U.S. military. An entire generation of software engineers, capable of building the next generation of AI weaponry, has turned its back on the nation-state, disinterested in the messiness and moral complexity of geopolitics. While pockets of support for defense work have emerged in recent years, the vast majority of money and talent continues to stream toward the
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