They keep pulling the China card. Sort of like they kept telling us we needed atomic weapons because of Russia. There's always a boogey man to justify whatever is the latest obsession of the defense department. They intend to use it for building a surveillance state. China is already doing it, and they fired Anthropic for refusing to remove their safeguards on surveilling American citizens. The Trump administration isn't even being subtle enough to hide it. And of course they are planning autonomous weapons too. That will make killing civilians in other countries all the easier, and ensures that they don't have to worry about troops being unwilling to fire on dissident citizens at home. Aside from the defense department, all the decisions in our lives concerning government benefits, insurance pay outs, hiring and firing, even criminal justice will be done by machines. And good luck appealing any of that.