Ask HN: Why is AI civil tech and not military first?

By esher · 2026-08-27 · 4 points · 6 comments

A lot of civilian tech started out for military use: rockets, Teflon (kind of), nuclear power (arguably), weather forecasting. There was a recent discussion about how much the CIA invested in NeXT. Now I look at OpenAI and Anthropic. They seem to build civilian products first an…

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