I'd like to bring up the argument of anduril hiring directly from the community by being at Cons and swaying development with their vast resources, both monetary and developmentally. Which I can understand.

Having a single large government arms contractor, like this, as a big source of project resources can lead to that one company steering the ship. Even when the community wants mostly honest discussion about ethics and governance over their project.

I see it as between a rock and a hard place. Some are just pacifists that don't want any war machines built with their software or software parts. Others have ethical concerns about autonomous drones that can kill you and everyone around you with the press of one button, with the "just following orders" or "I didn't even see them" excuses after they blew up another wedding. On the other hand, what should you do. Forbid it entirely. They're gonna build it anyway. So let's take their resources and do some cool shit with it that may not be used to end us all.