Elon's xAI chatbot says SpaceX's quiet part out loud(old.reddit.com) |
Elon's xAI chatbot says SpaceX's quiet part out loud(old.reddit.com) |
Space is perhaps the worst possible place you could choose to store nuclear weapons.
Furthermore, I'm not sure why we're treating the output of a chatbot as a "leak"—is OP really asserting that the chatbot's training data would include classified documents?
Quotes & citations:
- Nature study on Mars being infeasible with Starship: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-54012-0
- Gwynne Shotwell, asked whether SpaceX would launch offensive weapons into orbit, to which she answered, “If it’s for the defense of this country, yes, I think we would” https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2018/09/spacex-well-co...
- U.S. government to develop space-based missile defense: https://www.science.org/content/article/decades-after-reagan...
- Political speech on constructing a new Strategic Defense Initiative: "we will build a shield in space to protect our people from the unthinkable threat of nuclear weapons" https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/donald-trump-pla...
- Shield overlayer "would put around 1,000 networked microsatellites in orbit that would serve as both sensors and communication relays, as well as platforms for launching interceptors." https://www.heritage.org/defense/report/time-new-missile-def... SHIELD overlayer
It is hardly the first one to connect these dots. I and many others came to these same conclusions years ago when it became apparent that SpaceX had the ability to execute on the Starlink plan.