We have had for decades any number of defense contractors in the U.S. not taken by force by the U.S. They seem to have, nonetheless, happily produced what the military was wanting to purchase.
The difference is that military procurement (a) isn't sold to the general public (try buying a machine gun) and (b) doesn't provide an opportunity to surveil and control the population (no citizens are also using F-35s to search how much Trump has made from crypto ventures).
As far as I'm aware, this was only predicted by play acting effective altruists who tend to have a histrionic outlook around further developments of large language models.
Are you saying that the "effective altruists" are responsible for the cabal of bigtech+reactionary elites salivating at the power of pervasive surveillance + machine intelligence ? While the former certainly supplement the fervor of the latter, I think they would exist regardless.
it was long predicted that it is inevitable for national governments to fully nationalize AI labs and put them under military control