17/06/2026
“For decades, the architects of technological power have developed a language that distributes responsibility so broadly that it dissolves. … The twentieth century was filled with claims that new technologies would make war cleaner, more rational, and more humane. The historical record offers little support for such optimism. …. The children of Minab did not encounter AI as a philosophical debate. …. The schoolhouse in Minab stands as a warning, not only about a single strike, or a single company, or a single war. It warns of a future in which technological power advances faster than public accountability. And in that future, the distance between the engineer and the battlefield grows ever smaller with AI and drones, even as responsibility becomes harder to find amongst the humans who send the machines out to kill for them.”
Anthropic and the US War on Iran