Unfortunately, that scenario is no longer the stuff of cold war fiction. As first reported by Business Insider, Major General William “Hank” Taylor, commander of the 8th Field Army in South Korea, told reporters that “Chat[GPT] and I” have become “really close lately.”

“I’m asking to build, trying to build models to help all of us,” he said, adding that he’s using ChatGPT to help make military and personal decisions affecting the soldiers under his command. This includes the joint United Nations Command in South Korea, which Taylor currently leads as chief of staff.

Evolution has always heavily favored taking the easiest route possible, and humans especially excel at offloading anything we possibly can. Laziness is ironically a huge advantage for most of human existence.

So it makes sense when people immediately dump their own critical thinking to AI. And if it's just one person fucking their own life up it's not a huge deal.

But a senior military leader offloading executive decisions to an AI is fucking insane.

Not only for all the normal reasons, but the fact that it could be a personalized attack vector, and at this level with him publicly talking about it...

Someone is going to try.

But he's not just fucking around with his own life and safety, he's fucking with thousands of people with little to no oversight.

I just hope to God he's using the DoD version at least and not just a random build.