@being_on_line @bratton @NoemaMag 5/ Starker: AI is being integrated into nuclear command, control, and decision systems in a world whose political structures increasingly reveal systemic instability. Treating this as merely another phase of AI complexification lands less like sobriety than cataclysmic denial.
@NoemaMag @AndrewSorota 1/32 That's exceptional. And an urgent, parallel concern? A hangover from my days co-chairing the National Computer Ethics and Responsibilities Campaign, and ongoing citizen-led peace-work, but I've spent months wading through a raft of reports on the nuclear weaponization of AI.
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As for the the nuclear weaponization of AI: a new phase of existential risk—technical, political, ontological. Inscrutable, hallucinating, and unbound, AI now informs nuclear command systems with no felt sense of what Armageddon entails—amid a mimetic swarm unfit to intervene. That could be accused of being a quaint assessment. Today's recipe? Take the root pathology of a form of diabolical infantilism affording the world no realistic *waking*, that is, *exit* strategy, other than nuclear annihilation. Then, whoopee, algorithmically supercharge it.