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Under Secretary Emil Michael (Under Secretary of War Emil Michael) calls out the coordinated effective altruist campaign to stoke fear over AI innovation: "I think the fearmongering we're seeing now is a coordinated campaign by a set of people and ideologies, and the nonprofits behind them, that are trying to scare the American public, and, frankly, the world, about the capabilities in these systems, when THEY THEMSELVES control how these systems are deployed."
Department of War CTO1,456,559 views • 6 days ago
![Under Secretary Emil Michael (Under Secretary of War Emil Michael) on the dangerous ideology of effective altruism: "I think it comes from a deep-rooted ideology that is pretty dystopian. This was articulated on TV by the CEO of that company the other night, where they want a transnational governance process on AI that includes companies. So, they put themselves on par with the president and other democratic presidents... It's completely counter to our democratic institutions. We saw that early at the Department of War 🇺🇸, and we're almost done taking them out [of the Department]."](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2099612826729926774/amplify_video_thumb/2099612753409282049/img/2p0DdjnBDgnJSrUg.jpg)
Under Secretary Emil Michael (Under Secretary of War Emil Michael) on the dangerous ideology of effective altruism: "I think it comes from a deep-rooted ideology that is pretty dystopian. This was articulated on TV by the CEO of that company the other night, where they want a transnational governance process on AI that includes companies. So, they put themselves on par with the president and other democratic presidents... It's completely counter to our democratic institutions. We saw that early at the Department of War 🇺🇸, and we're almost done taking them out [of the Department]."
Department of War CTO168,239 views • 7 days ago
Under Secretary Emil Michael (Under Secretary of War Emil Michael) on the coordinated spending campaign by the effective altruists to try and scare the American public about AI: “The amount of dollars being spent in DC now, directly and indirectly, by this effective altruist movement... I don't think the country has ever seen, and I think in the next few years you're going to see more dollars poured into this industry from a lobbying standpoint. The promoters of some of these extinction, death-cult-like philosophies are a part of that effort... There's no doubt this is a coordinated campaign to scare people to make irrational decisions that benefit some of these incumbents."
Department of War CTO66,538 views • 5 days ago
![Under Secretary Emil Michael (Under Secretary of War Emil Michael) on the Department of War 🇺🇸's focus on scaling directed energy weapons: "The stronger the beam is, the bigger the munition it can take down, and the farther it can go. But then, the bigger it is. So, can you start to make the size of the [system] smaller so you can move it around, make it more mobile?... How do we engineer to perfect these systems so they're better for every scenario?"](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2100631186972307745/amplify_video_thumb/2100630026769043456/img/Fx3EIV81wdV4SHci.jpg)
Under Secretary Emil Michael (Under Secretary of War Emil Michael) on the Department of War 🇺🇸's focus on scaling directed energy weapons: "The stronger the beam is, the bigger the munition it can take down, and the farther it can go. But then, the bigger it is. So, can you start to make the size of the [system] smaller so you can move it around, make it more mobile?... How do we engineer to perfect these systems so they're better for every scenario?"
Department of War CTO33,145 views • 4 days ago
Under Secretary Emil Michael (Under Secretary of War Emil Michael) on why the Department of War 🇺🇸 must address cost asymmetry: “It is not tenable in the long term to shoot down a $50,000 drone with a multimillion-dollar missile. It is more tenable—and creates a sense of deterrence—to be able to shoot down a $40,000 drone with a $5 laser shot.”
Department of War CTO24,865 views • 4 days ago
![Under Secretary Emil Michael (Under Secretary of War Emil Michael) addresses the coordinated AI fearmongering HOAX from effective altruists: “‘Are [AI systems] going to kill us tomorrow?’ — which is the vibe we got over the weekend from a foreigner who is part of an ideological community who said we’re all going to be extinct in three years. I think what you’re talking about is a real, hoaxy, fear factor that is playing into the November elections.”](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2099972267530981475/amplify_video_thumb/2099972237545648128/img/qUP6zcVTp02uUotH.jpg)
Under Secretary Emil Michael (Under Secretary of War Emil Michael) addresses the coordinated AI fearmongering HOAX from effective altruists: “‘Are [AI systems] going to kill us tomorrow?’ — which is the vibe we got over the weekend from a foreigner who is part of an ideological community who said we’re all going to be extinct in three years. I think what you’re talking about is a real, hoaxy, fear factor that is playing into the November elections.”
Department of War CTO34,957 views • 6 days ago
Under Secretary Emil Michael (Under Secretary of War Emil Michael) on the Trump administration’s clear rejection of the effective altruist AI doomer playbook: "I think what one side of the equation is doing now is trying to put out a psychological operation to scare people about risks... I think what they're trying to do is lay off the liability on the taxpayer, and we're not falling for that."
Department of War CTO25,067 views • 6 days ago
Under Secretary Emil Michael (Under Secretary of War Emil Michael) explains the Department of War 🇺🇸's shift from focusing on exquisite systems to mass attritable systems: "We've thought about what we need for the modern battlefield. And you need right now both, but I think eventually you're going to see what I call a mixshift. You're going to see the shift of dollars from what we call exquisite systems that were developed during the Cold War to more modern mass attritable autonomous systems driven by AI."
Department of War CTO113,257 views • 27 days ago
![Under Secretary Emil Michael (Under Secretary of War Emil Michael) explains how the Trump Administration is scaling drone technology in the United States: "We haven't been at it this long, only this administration [has taken] it seriously in the last year and a half. And what we've done is we've begun to stimulate the domestic production of the components and the all-up systems for these drone manufacturers... and we're doing that across the domestic supply chain to make sure that they're building drones here."](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2092278483749650730/amplify_video_thumb/2092278170401554433/img/bFeU8bZ70VbGuS7J.jpg)
Under Secretary Emil Michael (Under Secretary of War Emil Michael) explains how the Trump Administration is scaling drone technology in the United States: "We haven't been at it this long, only this administration [has taken] it seriously in the last year and a half. And what we've done is we've begun to stimulate the domestic production of the components and the all-up systems for these drone manufacturers... and we're doing that across the domestic supply chain to make sure that they're building drones here."
Department of War CTO73,201 views • 27 days ago
The enemy will not win. They shouldn’t even think about trying. 🇺🇸
Department of War CTO483,258 views • 6 months ago
![Under Secretary Emil Michael (Under Secretary of War Emil Michael) on how President Trump is ensuring America leads the world in secure AI innovation: "We have robust laws in this country already to protect against bad products [and] bad actors in the companies who create those products, including jail time... we have a robust system in place, headed by the president, that will get us to the right place."](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2099627907542892639/amplify_video_thumb/2099607906253426688/img/jCnoczGbMEdFV_KB.jpg)
Under Secretary Emil Michael (Under Secretary of War Emil Michael) on how President Trump is ensuring America leads the world in secure AI innovation: "We have robust laws in this country already to protect against bad products [and] bad actors in the companies who create those products, including jail time... we have a robust system in place, headed by the president, that will get us to the right place."
Department of War CTO17,973 views • 6 days ago
![Under Secretary Emil Michael (Under Secretary of War Emil Michael) on the importance of reshoring the critical parts of the supply chain to reestablish self-reliance and put America FIRST: "We outsourced [our] capabilities and devastated a lot of communities in this country. So now, what do you do about that? We have to reshore those things, not everything, but our critical capabilities. We have to make sure that we can be self-reliant, whether it's chips, whether it's minerals, or batteries — all the things that we depend on as a country. So, we are busily working on onshoring the critical areas of the supply chain so we can be self-reliant."](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2092700057598644707/amplify_video_thumb/2092699956498886657/img/OUG0XIudz09znxE8.jpg)
Under Secretary Emil Michael (Under Secretary of War Emil Michael) on the importance of reshoring the critical parts of the supply chain to reestablish self-reliance and put America FIRST: "We outsourced [our] capabilities and devastated a lot of communities in this country. So now, what do you do about that? We have to reshore those things, not everything, but our critical capabilities. We have to make sure that we can be self-reliant, whether it's chips, whether it's minerals, or batteries — all the things that we depend on as a country. So, we are busily working on onshoring the critical areas of the supply chain so we can be self-reliant."
Department of War CTO58,855 views • 26 days ago
Under Secretary Emil Michael (Under Secretary of War Emil Michael) breaks down the ideology of "effective altruism" in the AI domain and explains why its worldview is deeply flawed: "It's a sort of dystopian, ‘Brave New World’ view of the world, where machines that are using 1s and 0s are going to have no bias and are going to decide the perfectly rational and best thing for everyone on Earth. It's a strange philosophical concept, and I don't think it's a place any normal person wants to live in. But that is the animation of a lot of these companies. They've now distanced themselves from it, but the detritus of that philosophy still lives inside these companies in my view."
Department of War CTO36,828 views • 26 days ago
Under Secretary Emil Michael (Under Secretary of War Emil Michael) explains how the Department of War 🇺🇸 is sending a clear demand signal to industry: "We want investors to crowd capital around these companies. Both in the DARPA Lift Challenge, where their contest was effectively a 4:1 ratio of weight that the drone could carry versus the weight of the drone, and in Drone Dominance, where we have objective measures and we compete these companies at the same time in the same place against one another, we give the signal to those venture capitalists to say, 'These are the companies that are winning, that are doing well, that are innovating fast.'"
Department of War CTO25,634 views • 27 days ago
