The column says Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is tasking Elon Musk and Newt Gingrich to sketch an “Autonomous Warfare Command” (AutoWarCom) for drones, sensors, and unmanned boats, and proposes tripling autonomous-warfare spending to $74 billion.

It names Anduril co-founder Palmer Luckey, a Trump donor, as an adviser, and treats lethal systems that select targets without a human decision as the core risk, citing reported control failures at OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google.

The author’s objection is political as well as technical: a separate command plus these advisers, not a claim that such a command already exists or that rogue weapons have been fielded.

Imagine four of the most frighteningly irresponsible people in America deciding how AI will be put to use in the most........

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