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Yeah if you secretly develop a fleet of autonomous killer robots under the nose of the Pentagon, DARPA, the FBI and CIA and every other authority and they’re so good that they can destroy (enough of) the entire command structure of the world’s most powerful nations such that they unconditionally surrender to you, then you’ll be in power.
I consider that quite unlikely.
Fauci managed to do his gain of function research under the nose of both the US government and the Chinese government and they didn't stop him. The US government wanted to stop him, gain of function research was forbidden in the USA, which is why he had to send money to China to do it there. I'm pretty sure that the Chinese government would have stopped him if they had been keeping up with the technology and realized the stakes.
He managed it by being high-ranking insider. Applying that insight to "secretly develop a fleet of autonomous killer robots", if you are an insider working for DARPA, the Pentagon will help you keep it secret. The top people are politicians in the Joe Biden electoral sense. The level below that are politicians in the bureaucratic maneuvering sense. If you are the highest ranking technologist, who understands the details of the authorization mechanisms that confer control of the killer swarm, you are exposed to serious temptation.
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