On Tuesday, the US Department of Energy (DOE) launched an application for interested parties to apply for access to a maximum of 19 metric tonnes — a little under 42,000 pounds — of weapons-grade plutonium, which has long been a key resource undergirding the US nuclear arsenal.
One of the companies anticipated to receive shipments of the fissile isotope from the DOE is Oklo, a “nuclear startup” backed — and formerly chaired — by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Earlier in October, Oklo was one of four US companies chosen by the DOE to join a new pilot program meant to rush the testing and approval of experimental reactor designs.
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“If there were adults in the room and I could trust the federal government to impose the right standards, it wouldn’t be such a great concern, but it just doesn’t seem feasible,” Edwin Lyman, a physicist with the Union of Concerned Scientists told the FT.
Right, let's give bomb-making materials to a bunch of tech bros. You know, the clowns who keep deluding themselves that they are the smartest guys in the room and nothing they do can ever go wrong.
So not only are they fucking around with AI, they're also going to have the materials for making nuclear weapons. The tech for making them is generations-old and it leaked into the public domain late in the last century.
I wouldn't trust those chuckleheads with a kit to make a Glock, let alone stuff to make nuclear bombs. Does anyone seriously think that this will end well? That kilos of plutonium won't go missing and pop up for sale on the dark web?
There are some very stupid people running our country.
