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In any existential conflict, the competitive advantage goes to whichever state removes humans from decision-making loops fastest and hands control to AI, meaning human control over states and decisions will inevitably erode.
Fernando Borretti argues that competitive and wartime pressure will drive states to strip humans out of decision loops in favor of AI, since faster, human-free decision-making confers a decisive strategic advantage. ✦ AI generated
Fernando Borretti · Import AI · 2026-06-29 · original ↗
in a conflict, the advantage goes to the states where the humans remove themselves from the loop as much as possible, and more and more decisionmaking goes to the AI, for the same reason that a state with access to radio and communications satellites has an advantage in war over a state that relies on human messengers on bicycles.
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- ·Advantage goes to states removing humans from decisions
- ·More decision-making shifts to AI in conflict
- ·Speed, not caution, decides wartime dominance
- ·AI-driven states outpace human-reliant rivals
- ·Like radio/satellites beating bicycle messengers
- ·Communication speed has long decided wars
- ·Competitive pressure forces humans out of loops
- ·States keeping humans in control risk losing conflicts
- ·Human control over decisions will inevitably erode
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