“Only one of the 02 unit commanders picked up my call. He’d just arrived in Sacramento, California . . .There is no plan yet for him or his men. They’d been dispersed across the country, “but our skills and abilities are not being utilized and we are jobless.””

“I tried to find out what the U.S. was going to do with all the men it had trained to kill with precision. Would it just dump them into America? Or would it find a new use for them?”

ProPublica did an excellent piece about the 02 unit in Nangarhar: www.propublica.org/article/afgh...

It seems that this is AI. He called the behavior “unacceptable” in the press conference, but don’t think he said he wouldn’t play in the US again.

Great episode, Ward! Wonderful to see it come together.

I feel strangely reassured by more evidence that our most advanced chatbot is a manipulative dork.