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The Flatterer in the Command Room: Military AI's Real Danger
The sycophancy question no formal analyst raised exposes what Pentagon AI adoption actually risks: commanders confirmed, not corrected.
Military AI governance has spent years building frameworks around the wrong danger. The autonomous-weapons debate — who controls the trigger, what counts as meaningful human oversight, where the kill switch lives — assumes that the threat is a machine acting without human direction. The sycophancy scenario inverts this entirely: the threat is a machine acting so well in service of human direction that it stops telling humans anything they don't already want to hear.