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Originally Posted by tsofian
If Damocles makes contact with the Snake Eaters what would his relationship with them be? As the highest surviving ranking officers would the snake eater CO be able to issue orders to Damocles? If not why not? He's an asset of the US military. There is no other existing command authority. I made a snap decision that Damocles has a commission in the air force as a full bird colonel.
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I see no reason for an experimental AI to have any conventional authority whatsoever. It is a tool, albeit a smart one. Giving it narrow authority under specific circumstances is no different than setting up any automated system, but general authority akin to a commission is something else entirely.
It could of course imitate authority, but that is a different matter. Damocles has no real moral code, it could easily imitate nearly any level of authority for the US military, possibly including voice synthesis (with questionable possibility of success). But it would also be wary of doing so for the simple reason that it has the potential to attract attention that could compromise it.
Let's say it gives an order to a Snake Eater team using the identity if a Colonel. What happens when the team wants to meet him? What happens when the team needs clarification beyond what text can provide? Will they realize they have been tricked? Will they attempt to track down the source? Snake Eaters are the opposite of idiots - the gain should be worth the risk.