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<p class="gmail-dcr-1s160rg">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.</p><span name="RichLinkComponent"><div class="gmail-dcr-1rx5ky9"><div class="gmail-dcr-1oa9qlw"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/12/forgetting-the-apocalypse-why-our-nuclear-fears-faded-and-why-thats-dangerous" class="gmail-dcr-f35c0u"><div class="gmail-dcr-1qrpqn4"></div><div><img src="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/21c25f42b059725cc6b36d508c5785f389f9ca00/0_485_2937_1762/master/2937.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=c1657ece0ff7f989d99a19f99e4dd642" alt="A US nuclear weapon test in Nevada in 1953." class="gmail-dcr-1359eqp" width="2937" height="1762"></div><div class="gmail-dcr-vvxpdt"><div class="gmail-dcr-6z6e7"><div class="gmail-dcr-zh9rih">Forgetting the apocalypse: why our nuclear fears faded – and why that’s dangerous</div></div><div class="gmail-dcr-oj13vq"></div></div></a></div></div></span><span name="RichLinkComponent"><div class="gmail-dcr-1rx5ky9"><div class="gmail-dcr-1oa9qlw"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/12/forgetting-the-apocalypse-why-our-nuclear-fears-faded-and-why-thats-dangerous" class="gmail-dcr-f35c0u"><div class="gmail-dcr-vvxpdt"><div class="gmail-dcr-oj13vq"><div class="gmail-dcr-ef9nua">Read more</div></div></div></a></div></div></span><p class="gmail-dcr-1s160rg">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.</p>

<br><br>Keith<br></div></div><div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Nov 2, 2026 at 9:55 AM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-305802548450492066"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" lang="EN-US"><div class="m_-305802548450492066WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div style="border-color:rgb(225,225,225) currentcolor currentcolor;border-style:solid none none;border-width:1pt medium medium;padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Keith Henson <<a href="mailto:hkeithhenson@gmail.com" target="_blank">hkeithhenson@gmail.com</a>> <br><br><b><u></u><u></u></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">>…</span></b>Rather than killing us, the AI might bury us with scams.<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal">Keith<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Ja, well, if it comes down to that binary choice, I’ll taaaake… scams for 500 please Alex.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><blockquote style="border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);border-style:none none none solid;border-width:medium medium medium 1pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div>