The State of Artificial Intelligence

AI will be the most economic, political, social, cultural, historic, and personal technological advancement in human history. In the next five to ten years, we are going to see incredible discoveries based on the advent of Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) already being developed across the sciences. Our most prestigious federal and industry labs are applying AI models to super- and quantum-computers that will revolutionize medicine, the military, the labor force, and our personal lives.

The U.S. Navy, which has been leading the crusade in autonomy, has had many historic firsts in the last decade. With Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs) and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) we are seeing a quick transition into programs like Manned-Unmanned Teaming (MUM-T), where data fusion and big data can be leveraged to implement incredible advantages on the battlefield. As Command & Control (C2) leverages or implements AI more, we will see an incredible ability to deter or combat threats to the United States.

Why the 2024 election mattered for AI

The election was pivotal for many reasons, but largely because it decided what kind of AI the people of this nation will have — it was either going to be developed under a tyrannical Kamala regime or a Trump administration that returns political power to the people. Make no mistake: in four years under a Kamala regime, AI would have looked drastically different and something none of us would want.

For these reasons, it is incredibly important to get AI right. Unleashing innovation, leveraging federal and industry labs, and ensuring AI has adequate sandbox testing will prove critical especially in the next four years. Within the next year we will see AI automation start to take a larger role in administrative, manufacturing, transportation, Large Language Model (LLM), economic, and many other sectors of our society.

Putting AI to work inside government

It is imperative that we start implementing LLMs into government to make it less bureaucratic and to remove the culture of overspending. There is currently a downward spiral of overspending where subordinate agencies embellish or exaggerate what they do — or what they need — in order to meet operational requirements. This must change.

We propose mass education of the federal workforce in AI so that employees understand how to use it and might find suitable work outside of government if there is a reduction in force or a Schedule F implemented. Understanding AI tools and how to prompt LLMs provides incredible advantages in the workforce. We are advocates of fast-tracking AI implementation initially in auditing and reporting — this will provide the greatest quick oversight for Congress while reducing the workload of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and other agencies whose job is to audit or report to Congress.

Incremental reduction of the federal workforce, paired with retraining in expertise that the receiving industries would value, would supplement the broader transition. As we move toward Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI), we will need AI managers and other personnel to facilitate the societal change.

Exciting — and dangerous

We are entering an era that is both exciting and dangerous. While American industry is making incredible advancements in AI, bad actors around the world are trying to wield it for their own nefarious purposes. AI is poised to advance at almost an exponential rate in the next four to six years. Governments around the world are clamoring to figure out how to use it. Nation-states that don’t implement AI will be at incredible disadvantage to those that do. It is imperative that the United States share AI with allies who share our values of free speech and similar democracy.

With the advent of AGI and advancements in LQMs, we will start to see recursive research — AI doing research on its own. With LLMs, LQMs, and quantum sensors we will soon see research in areas that dramatically affect the world population. AI is poised to dramatically affect health, manufacturing, the labor market, computer vision (autonomy), and AI agents — and from these advancements industry will provide military solutions that could create an era of AI deterrence with our peer adversaries.

The First Amendment in the AI era

We must ensure we maintain the vision of our founding fathers, which insisted upon and emphasized the importance of freedom of speech (no matter how offensive). We assert that the First Amendment is critical to maintaining a free society. We also recognize the movement to suppress or censor our First Amendment through social media as a dangerous but obvious pattern of pushing policy hidden behind the guise of good intentions.

The motivation to ban “hate speech” is an attempt to implement tyrannical government. Kamala and the extreme Left have married themselves to this destructive ideology and we are seeing the results firsthand in the United Kingdom and Ireland, where thousands of people have been arrested for a comment or meme on social media. While seemingly noble, if we have learned anything from politicians — they will politicize this power to suppress speech that opposes their policies or platform. The U.S. Supreme Court is the only judge and branch of the federal government that can define what free speech is. The Executive Branch cannot and must not.

The lesson of the Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution taught us much about technological advancement in human history. In Britain, the mid-17th century saw the start of the Industrial Revolution; the invention of the steam engine (1712) was leveraged in manufacturing and farming, dramatically changing the United States and Britain. The U.S. industrialized between 1760 and roughly 1840, and that helped bring millions of people out of poverty.

Because of those advances, Russia and China saw the need to industrialize as well. Russia’s industrial revolution ran from roughly 1890 to the mid-1930s; China’s under Mao came in 1958 – 1962 (the Great Leap Forward). Russia under Stalin instituted Collectivization, which resulted in 7 to 20 million deaths from forced labor or in labor camps — and the implementation of infanticide, mainly the killing of newborn babies due to starvation. China’s Great Leap Forward saw between 30 and 45 million deaths from famine, execution, and forced labor.

There is a great need to acknowledge how those technological advancements caused tyrannical governments to perpetuate incredible harm to their citizens. We must ensure the United States’ AI policy is rolled out in a way that may also incrementally benefit peer competitors without putting the U.S. in harm when our kindness is taken advantage of. There is great economic value in an AI policy that is cooperative and mutually valued as a way to build relationships of trust.

An AI deterrence doctrine

We recognize the need for the United States to adopt an AI deterrence policy that complements our nuclear deterrence policy. This AI policy should be a defensive posture coupled with clear red lines and based on tit-for-tat AI models. A tit-for-tat AI model will help ensure red lines are not crossed and that measured responses are deployed when they need to be. AI in the military is poised to replace human combatants and can be a force multiplier — if done responsibly and competently, it can ensure peace for many years.

Guardrails for our most impressionable

AI must have guardrails and safeguards to ensure the most impressionable members of our society are not manipulated or harmed. In recent months we have seen staggering statistics showing a substantial increase in teen suicide and mental health problems. Congress must act to pass legislation that ensures AI safety is implemented in corporations that deploy algorithms — especially when exposed to children. Robust sandbox testing before algorithms are deployed, coupled with regulatory controls, is paramount.

Deploying AI or advanced technologies in the coming years will require responsible, ethical people who are driven to promote the benefits of the people and not just corporations. We need honorable, truthful, and ethical people to work in technology so that the benefits for those who live in the United States are enshrined and preserved.

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