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This issue is too complex for me to really have a good thought at the moment, but I will say that this reminds me of that classic story of the Soviet who didn't launch the nukes during a threat came in from the US.

The threat ended up being a false alarm, and that human judgement saved a lot of lives. A machine, assuming it would have launched when seeing that signal, would've ended differently.






In 1962, the US sent out a valid nuclear launch order with correct launch codes, by mistake.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/former-us-airman-tells-un-an... ("Former US Airman Tells UN an Accidental Nuclear War Was Narrowly Avoided in 1962")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10452983 ("The Okinawa missiles of October 1962 (thebulletin.org)", 71 comments)



Imagine an AI system is programmed to poison the well incase of losing scenario. So it takes advantage of Kessler System to make sure no one else has advantage if it doesn't too poisoning the whole of earth orbits for centuries to come in which satellites could reside.



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