The future sketched here is not speculative—it’s already arriving. Defense towers will soon rise over critical infrastructure, capable of deploying autonomous drone swarms for both surveillance and active defense. Ground-based drone swarms for crowds and vehicles, aerial interceptors for airspace denial, all AI-assisted, all increasingly cheap to scale. These won’t be exclusive to state actors.
What’s more dangerous is what fits in a backpack: a jailbroken AI running on a laptop, acting as a tactical advisor for non-state groups. Strategy generation, target prioritization, escape route simulation—available offline. That's no longer sci-fi. That’s this decade.
AI is a vibe amplifier. And our civilization’s vibes are extractive, paranoid, collapsing. Until that shifts, these systems will keep scaling conflict. We are building swarms for war, not systems for peace. And it’s going to test every institution we’ve taken for granted.
I’d push back on that—the threat vectors are here, but the defenses are not. I’ve asked, and the services you’re talking about simply are not for sale in 2025. Keep in mind that utilities are 10 years behind on IT on a good day.
The future sketched here is not speculative—it’s already arriving. Defense towers will soon rise over critical infrastructure, capable of deploying autonomous drone swarms for both surveillance and active defense. Ground-based drone swarms for crowds and vehicles, aerial interceptors for airspace denial, all AI-assisted, all increasingly cheap to scale. These won’t be exclusive to state actors.
What’s more dangerous is what fits in a backpack: a jailbroken AI running on a laptop, acting as a tactical advisor for non-state groups. Strategy generation, target prioritization, escape route simulation—available offline. That's no longer sci-fi. That’s this decade.
AI is a vibe amplifier. And our civilization’s vibes are extractive, paranoid, collapsing. Until that shifts, these systems will keep scaling conflict. We are building swarms for war, not systems for peace. And it’s going to test every institution we’ve taken for granted.
I’d push back on that—the threat vectors are here, but the defenses are not. I’ve asked, and the services you’re talking about simply are not for sale in 2025. Keep in mind that utilities are 10 years behind on IT on a good day.