Pentagon abruptly ends all funding for social science research

• “The Pentagon’s decision to scrap its social science research portfolio … is short-sighted and harmful to U.S. national security,” says Jason Lyall, a political scientist at Dartmouth College. Many of the canceled projects focused on how new technologies such as artificial intelligence are shaping modern battlefields, Lyall notes. “How do you know what’s ‘impactful’ if you don’t do the research? How do you anticipate countermeasures and consequences of their use?” he asks. “I’m worried that without this portfolio, we lose a critical source of impartial evidence about national security, leaving the Pentagon more susceptible to companies selling ‘revolutionary’ but unproven technologies.”

This is just the start

• ICE agents arrested Mahmoud Khalil for his role in pro-Palestine protests, signaling the beginning of a surveillance nightmare.

SBIRs

• 9:00 Sprint Demos
• 3:00 Sprint Planning
• 4:00 P2E!

GPT Agents

• KA Epilogue
• P33 – think about money simulator. People would have a distribution of “interests,” and each interest should have a probability of being selected. Some will be “geographic,” based on position on the number line or maybe 2D space (multiple spaces? higher dimensions?), others will be arbitrary. Arbitrary can change and be attracted/repelled by other fixed and arbitrary values. Then we can play around with clustering, transactions, and mixing in of hierarchical organizations.