Tag: Defense-First AI
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The Virtue of a Proportional Response
In The American President, a quiet line about “proportional response” exposes the moral arithmetic beneath national security decisions. In the age of artificial intelligence, that pause — that recognition of human cost — must never be automated away.
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When Ethics Competes with National Security: Who Blinks First in the AI Arms Race?
Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming dual-use infrastructure for both civilian systems and national defense. When national security imperatives collide with ethical guardrails, who sets the boundary — the state, the firm, or the market? This piece argues for a “Defense-First AI” doctrine: prioritizing infrastructure resilience, cybersecurity, and biosecurity over autonomous lethal systems. Drawing on recent…