Don't worry, the U.S. military's AI will be "Judeo-Christian," says 3-star Pentagon general

[Nevilledog]

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/7/23/2182916/-Don-t-worry-the-U-S-military-s-AI-will-be-Judeo-Christian-says-3-star-Pentagon-general

Speaking at the Hudson Institute, a neoconservative think tank whose cadre of “experts” includes the former guy’s Christian nationalist Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Paul Marshall, whose 2002 book God and the Constitution: Christianity and American Politics was described as “an indispensable guide for Christians searching for a way to interject their religious convictions into their political actions,” Lt Gen Richard Moore, the Air Force's deputy chief of staff for plans and programs, had the perfect venue to espouse his Christian nationalist opinion that the U.S. military’s use of AI will be more ethical than that of other nations because:

“Regardless of what your beliefs are, our society is a Judeo-Christian society and we have a moral compass.”

Yes, this fine “Judeo-Christian” (a term used by Christian nationalists so they don’t sound antisemitic) 3-star U.S. military general just exemplified what the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) has seen for many years — that Christian nationalism goes all the way up to the highest ranks in our military.

This was Lt Gen Moore’s entire only-Christians-can-be-moral statement:

“What will the adversary do? It depends who plays by the rules of warfare and who doesn't. There are societies that have a very different foundation than ours. Regardless of what your beliefs are, our society is a Judeo-Christian society and we have a moral compass. Not everybody does, and there are those that are willing to go for the ends regardless of what means have to be employed, and we'll have to be ready for that.”

Imagine if you will (yeah, we’re in Rod Serling territory), an AI model trained on the Bible, a book full of violence and vengeance in which God on several occasions called for genocide, like in Deuteronomy 20:16-17, which says, “But of the cities of these peoples which the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance, you shall let nothing that breathes remain alive, but you shall utterly destroy them,” or this gem from the destruction of Jericho in Joshua 6: “Now the city shall be doomed by the Lord to destruction, it and all who are in it.“

*snip*

[relayerbob]

1. No one expects the AI Inquisition

[bullimiami]

2. ha ha. well im comforted now.

among our weapons are fear, surprise and ...

[icymist]

3. WTF? AI now has a religion?

[Skittles]

4. "Christians" and "morals"

[Eko]

5. MRFF founder and president Mikey Weinstein also had a bit to say about the Christian nationalist Lt

“The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) is demanding that the Department of Defense (DoD) immediately, publicly and aggressively bring General Court Martial charges against Lt. General Richard Moore for one of the most flagrant and brazen Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) criminal violations of Air Force Instruction 1-1, Section 2.12 that MRFF has ever seen!

“And let me make one thing DAMN clear to everyone right now from MRFF, as specific subject matter experts in this EXACT type of extremist religious warfare in our U.S. military; when wretched fundamentalist Christian bigots, like this hateful, repugnant Lt. General Moore, mention the deceptive term ‘Judeo-Christian’ society those are mere thinly veiled, fundamentalist Christian code words for ONLY “Christian” society!

“Again, ONLY CHRISTIAN SOCIETY!!

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This is why "under god" and "in god we trust" should be removed immediately. It perpetuates this kind of thinking and reinforces it.

[Johonny]

6. So it will be a member of an end of times cult

Tell me you never read the Christian Bible . . .

[LiberalFighter]

7. He needs to be fired.

[Maru Kitteh]

8. Let's start with a "righteous" DEMOTION. Knock him back to

Private second class maybe? Then fire him.

[Irish_Dem]

10. He needs to retire immediately and spend time with his family.

[Irish_Dem]

9. The "Christian" moral compass is completely broken and worthless.

In fact it appears to point directly to hell.

[Brother Buzz]

11. Short YouTube video:

[Shanti Shanti Shanti]

12. O Lord not the Rapture Ready crowd, can't I just sit on the beach and drink my beer in peace?

[Freethinker65]

13. Please be satire

[hunter]

14. How did I know this would be an Air Force guy?

If I was Emperor of the U.S.A. I'd disperse the Air Force into the Army and Navy and hand all the Air Force's christo-fascists a general discharge.

You probably shouldn't even ask me about the Space Force.

I'd be interested in hearing what Air Force veterans think.

Don't hold back, my flame suit is well tested.

My grandfather was an Army Air officer in World War II. They didn't think he was good enough for the newly created Air Force because his brother had been a communist and he himself was a most dangerous sort of Christian heretic.

The Bomb belonged to the One True Protestant Communist-hating Christian God.

My grandfather had the last laugh. He was one of the many engineers who landed men on the moon, as a civilian.

I'm looking forward to seeing Oppenheimer, probably this week.

He was also declared a misfit when the war ended.