[ExI] is this cool or what?

[Keith Henson]

Congress did not authorise this war. In two weeks, American forces struck
6,000 targets. The school was one of them. American forces killed almost
200 people, and the reporting reached for “AI error”, which domesticated
the event into something a better algorithm or better guardrails could have
prevented.
[image: A US nuclear weapon test in Nevada in 1953.]
Forgetting the apocalypse: why our nuclear fears faded – and why that’s
dangerous
<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/12/forgetting-the-apocalypse-why-our-nuclear-fears-faded-and-why-thats-dangerous>
Read more
<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/12/forgetting-the-apocalypse-why-our-nuclear-fears-faded-and-why-thats-dangerous>

In the days after the strike, the charisma of AI organised the entire
political conversation around the technology: whether Claude hallucinated,
whether the model was aligned, whether Anthropic bore responsibility for
its deployment. The constitutional question of who authorised this war and
the legal question of whether this strike constitutes a war crime were
displaced by a technical question that is easier to ask and impossible to
answer in the terms it set. The Claude debate absorbed the energy. That is
what charisma does.


Keith


On Mon, Nov 2, 2026 at 9:55 AM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

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