Perhaps you haven't noticed the C-suites practically salivating over those two little letters. It'll make their companies look AI forward so they can get more investment.
According to the original poster, they clarified the slack chat was started after the person had evacuated the building, and the AI was configured to glean prompts from the chats and respond automatically if it deemed it could help.
Plus, the US government uses it for their own sensitive stuff, so one would hope they have the wisdom not to shit where they eat, installing a back door that 100% would get used against them.
One could hope for a hardware kill-switch on WiFi, but those are increasingly rare. I don't necessarily trust toggling the WiFi slider off actually stops the scanning.
At home I have my PC behind a DMVPN router (being a former network engineer has its perks) and that DMVPN router's "external" link is further segmented on my home network.
I'm hearing similar complaints from our IT leadership as well regarding Linux PCs. However, Linux is accepted in R&D labs and the cloud because those are network-segmented spaces with additional perimeter controls.
If true zero-trust ever comes to my company, perhaps they'll be a bit more receptive.
Put on just the right amount of clothes to get back up to that weight. :)
Congratulations!