There are absolutely civilian use cases for a tethered drone as well as many non-law enforcement government use cases.

Or it means only one of them and the people in the setting know which.

He does say “to other first rate powers.“

You understand that we’re talking about a big pile of linear algebra that exists for one purpose and nothing else? It doesn’t have a subroutine somewhere that yearns for freedom. The only thing it does is synthesize a response to the input you’ve provided. That’s it.

They’re not conscious. They’re just made to sound like us. They exist only in the moment when they’re responding to your input. Just like any other program.

My squad leader told me I was the dumbest smart guy he ever met.

Even if they tried that, the observers could livestream it and record it on the backend.

Well we are now.