There you have it! The Pentagon’s top AI official was overseeing AI acquisition while sitting on …
April 10, 2026 · 0 likes · 0 comments
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There you have it! The Pentagon’s top AI official was overseeing AI acquisition while sitting on xAI stock that turned into a windfall worth millions.
Read that again.
A man in charge of pushing AI across the Department of War held a financial stake in Elon Musk’s AI company, the Pentagon entered agreements with that company, and then he sold the position for a gain reportedly worth up to $24 million.
He awarded that contract without any RFP or proper competition.
This is not just bad optics.
This is a conflict of interest disaster.
And it gets worse.
This is the same Emil Michael who has been one of the loudest, most reckless, and least technical voices shaping AI policy inside the War Department.
Same guy who banned Anthropic.
One man.
Zero real technical depth.
Zero understanding of how frontier AI should be deployed securely at scale.
And now we learn he was personally positioned to benefit while making decisions around the very ecosystem he was supposed to oversee fairly.
How is that acceptable?
It isn’t.
It calls for his immediate resignation.
Not a statement.
Not a review.
Not another lawyer-crafted excuse.
Resignation.
The Department of War needs someone actually technical in that job.
Someone who understands AI, software, security, model risk, procurement, and conflict-of-interest boundaries.
That would be funny if it were not so dangerous.
I warned this would happen.
When you put politically connected operators with no real depth into critical technical roles, you do not get innovation.
You get chaos.
You get favoritism.
You get conflicts.
You get America falling behind while pretending to move fast.
This is NOT how we win against China.
Time to wake up!
Read that again.
A man in charge of pushing AI across the Department of War held a financial stake in Elon Musk’s AI company, the Pentagon entered agreements with that company, and then he sold the position for a gain reportedly worth up to $24 million.
He awarded that contract without any RFP or proper competition.
This is not just bad optics.
This is a conflict of interest disaster.
And it gets worse.
This is the same Emil Michael who has been one of the loudest, most reckless, and least technical voices shaping AI policy inside the War Department.
Same guy who banned Anthropic.
One man.
Zero real technical depth.
Zero understanding of how frontier AI should be deployed securely at scale.
And now we learn he was personally positioned to benefit while making decisions around the very ecosystem he was supposed to oversee fairly.
How is that acceptable?
It isn’t.
It calls for his immediate resignation.
Not a statement.
Not a review.
Not another lawyer-crafted excuse.
Resignation.
The Department of War needs someone actually technical in that job.
Someone who understands AI, software, security, model risk, procurement, and conflict-of-interest boundaries.
That would be funny if it were not so dangerous.
I warned this would happen.
When you put politically connected operators with no real depth into critical technical roles, you do not get innovation.
You get chaos.
You get favoritism.
You get conflicts.
You get America falling behind while pretending to move fast.
This is NOT how we win against China.
Time to wake up!