Articolo molto interessante sull'industrializzazione della guerra (o
meglio, della morte) e sul ruolo delle tecnologie in questo processo.
<https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for-the-iran-school-bombing-the-truth-is-far-more-worrying>
Questo passaggio illumina l'ideologia che sta dietro alla /killchain/
come anche ai licenziamenti di Amazon trattati nel precedente messaggio
di Juan Carlos, e ne evidenzia la logica prettamente industriale mirante
al controllo e alla eliminazione di ogni conoscenza tacita e non codificata:
In 1984, the historian David Noble showed that when the US military
and American manufacturers automated their factory floors, they
consistently chose systems that were slower and more expensive but
which moved decision-making away from workers and into management.
The point was not efficiency – it was frequently extremely wasteful
– but control. A worker who understands what they are doing can
exercise judgment the institution cannot govern. Move that
understanding into the system, and the worker has nothing left to do
but follow instructions. Alex Karp, the CEO of Palantir, describes
exactly this achievement in his 2025 book, The Technological
Republic. “Software is now at the helm,” he writes, with hardware
“serving as the means by which the recommendations of AI are
implemented in the world.” His model for what this should look like
comes from nature: bee swarms and the murmurations of starlings.
“There is no mediation of the information captured by the scouts
once they return to the hive,” Karp writes. The starlings need no
permission from above, they require “no weekly reports to middle
management, no presentations to more senior leaders, no meetings or
conference calls to prepare for other meetings”. This sounds
liberating, even utopian. But the signal that passes without
mediation is also the signal that nobody can question.
Karp thinks he is destroying bureaucracy. He is encoding it. The
contempt for meetings and weekly reports and presentations to senior
leaders; he treats these as the bureaucratic process itself. They
are not. They were where people interpreted procedure, the place
where someone could notice when categories no longer fit the case.
The targeting doctrine is still there. They are columns on a
workflow board now, stages a target passes through on its way to
being struck. What Karp eliminated was the discretion the
institution could never admit it depended on. What remains is a
bureaucracy that can execute its rules but with no one left to
interpret them. Bureaucracy encoded in software does not bend. It
shatters.
Ciao,
Alberto
