It’s such a wild perspective too because like, everything the US is doing is public because it’s all just corporations fishing for more investor money or trying to look as advanced as they can possibly fake so their current shareholders get more wealth from people believing the shares are worth more and might be worth even more in the future. There are no particularly shadowy programs, apart from proprietary AI labs that are being cagey about how they’re training their dumbshit chatbots while issuing press releases like “our super special robot boy is so smart, you wouldn’t believe it, we’re totally too scared to even show him to you because he might have attained godhood, he’s even autocompleting a quarter of every line of code that gets written! Which definitely isn’t only a modest improvement over existing IDE autocompletes or boilerplate macros at all!” to try to get more funding and pump their shareholder value.