Is this a serious suggestion, or a warning for why there's no place for move-fast-and-kill-things startups in the defense space? No one should be working on this, especially not involving AI in any way.
In Ukraine, hundreds of small teams are working on new drones or other military tech, like radars, camouflage, shelters, demining, etc., but they are low on money.
I personally have some ideas based on my own experience in war, but I cannot make them while in a trench.
Well, given the fact that people are working on it, and many of them probably don't like you so much, it's a good idea for "the people you call friendly" to work on it.
"Our doomsday scheme cost us just a small fraction of what we'd been spending on defense in a single year. But the deciding factor was when we learned that your country was working along similar lines, and we were afraid of a doomsday gap."
