"... the question almost nobody was asking, is not about Claude or any language model. It is a bureaucratic question about what happened to the kill chain, and the answer is Palantir. ...

"The target package for the Shajareh Tayyebeh school presented a military facility. ... This package looked like every other package in the queue. But outside the package, the school appeared in Iranian business listings. It was visible on Google Maps. A search engine could have found it. Nobody searched. At a thousand decisions an hour, nobody was going to. ...

"Someone decided to build a system that produces a thousand targeting decisions per hour and call them high-quality. Someone decided to start this war. Several hundred people are sitting on Capitol Hill, refusing to stop it. Calling it an “AI problem” gives those decisions, and those people, a place to hide."

- Kevin Baker, "Kill Chain"
https://artificialbureaucracy.substack.com/p/kill-chain

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Kill Chain

On the automated bureaucratic machinery that killed 175 children

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@unchartedworlds the feeling I always come back to is that AIs primary value proposition is as an accountability sink.

This video essay "Everything Was Already AI" makes the case more exhaustively.

AI is a bureaucratic technology and the LLM is an implementation detail.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km2bn0HvUwg

Everything Was Already AI

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