From cf689313dc56cb5ef73422df340436dd2d1d4fca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: jessebot Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2026 13:22:40 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Start on section for AI ties to war industry --- README.md | 15 ++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index fb37764..db9acca 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -64,7 +64,8 @@ To Contribute, checkout our [`CONTRIBUTING.md`](./CONTRIBUTING.md). * [Poor Code Quality](#poor-code-quality) * [Infosec risks](#infosec-risks) * [Healthy and Safety](#healthy-and-safety) - * [Maintainer Fatigue](#maintainer-fatigue) + * [Maintainer Fatigue](#maintainer-fatigue) + * [Ties to the War Industrial Complex](#ties-to-the-war-industrial-complex) * [Deskilling](#deskilling) * [Effect on Hardware Prices](#effect-on-hardware-prices) * [License](#license) @@ -522,7 +523,16 @@ There's been a number of high profile incidents that have resulted in endangerme [LLM use has also been linked to new-onset psychosis](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12863933/). -## Maintainer Fatigue +### Ties to the War Industrial Complex + +A lot of AI companies also work directly with nation states for use in their Departments of War (sometimes called Defense) which in turn leads to futher AI usage during war and invasions. + +As an example [OpenAI works with the Pentagon](https://www.npr.org/2026/02/27/nx-s1-5729118/trump-anthropic-pentagon-openai-ai-weapons-ban). + +Due to the nature of LLMs being only kind of as good as the data they are trained on, this can lead to additional civilian deaths and housing/infrastructure damage either intensionally or not. + + +### Maintainer Fatigue Having to deal with the onslaught of many LLM written pull requests and issues, causes real maintainer burnout that stagnates projects as maintainers become overwhelmed with half baked, poorly written, insecure code. Here's some examples: @@ -554,7 +564,6 @@ The down-stream effects for consumers is that near all electronic devices which - [The 2026 storage crisis: Why AI data centers are hoarding every hard drive on the market](https://www.howtogeek.com/dont-count-on-hdds-to-save-you-from-rising-storage-costs/) - # License This repository is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International license. Please see [LICENSE.txt](LICENSE.txt) for more information.