If you want to feel good...DO NOT read any part of this 13
page Word document. It contains three readings
spurred by today’s (June 9, 2025) front page newspaper article (stunning by itself and long) that
mentions two books regarding this new threat that I’d never seriously
considered to be an immediate threat - to every aspect of our lives. I’m still processing it - and thinking the
people who need to know about it won’t believe it, change their beliefs, prepare for it, adapt to
it, or make plans to prevent it -- given it was a front page article in the
Washington Times ( #2 below.). #1 is an 2023 book “The Cognitive War”. #3 “Human, Machine, War” (2025) a new book
also mentioned in the article.
#1 The Cognitive
War: Why
We Are Losing and How We Can Win (2023) by Edward Lawrence Haugland:
ChatGPT detailed BOOK Summary:
Haugland challenges us to realize that warfare now extends far
beyond battlegrounds—it’s fought in our minds and values. Without vigilance and
purpose, freedom falters. But by reclaiming truth, cultivating civic virtue,
reforming key institutions, and engaging thoughtfully, we stand a real
chance—not just to resist, but to win this war.
#2 SECURITY: China
targets human mind for domination: Cognitive warfare already begun
June 9, 2025 By Bill Gertz THE WASHINGTON TIMES https://washingtontimes-dc.newsmemory.com/?token=7293d5dd19b443f9bf686e54fba436d6_6846daba_617091b&selDate=20250609
#3 Human, Machine, War: How the Mind‑Tech Nexus
Will Win Future Wars,
edited by Nicholas Wright, Michael Miklaucic, and Todd Veazie (published April 22, 2025 by Air University Press):
#1 The Cognitive
War: Why
We Are Losing and How We Can Win (2023) by Edward Lawrence Haugland: Overview & Central Thesis: Ideological battleground: Haugland argues
we’re entrenched in a Cognitive War — an ideological contest for hearts,
minds, beliefs, and values, both within the U.S. and globally.
- Endless
struggle: This war has no final victory—it’s perpetual and intensifying as
humanity’s foundational freedoms are challenged by forces favoring
control, tyranny, and subjugation.
- Why
we’re failing: A big part of the problem lies with Western
complacency—forgetfulness of history, waning civic resolve, and passive
acceptance. Many lapse into despair—becoming “complacent, compliant,
complicit, corrupt”.
Key Themes & Structure:
1.
Defining the Cognitive War: Unlike kinetic warfare, this is a battle of ideas and
perceptions. It’s about narrative dominance—shaping public opinion, steering
thought, and influencing behavior.
2.
Historical Context: Haugland suggests the U.S. has “lost
every war since World War II”—a statement reflecting defeat in ideological and
cognitive terms rather than military might.
He explores how history is selectively remembered or erased, weakening
the societal foundations essential for freedom.
3.
Understanding Mechanisms of Control: The author
delves into how propaganda, disinformation, mass media, social media
manipulation, educational content, and corporate messaging collectively shape
public consciousness. By controlling narratives, adversaries quietly influence
major societal shifts.
4.
Consequences of Cognitive Defeat: Societal breakdown: trust erodes in institutions, civic
engagement declines, and cultural fragmentation grows. Vulnerability spreads:
weakened moral frameworks and collective purpose leave societies vulnerable to
internal decay or external influence.
5.
A Call to Arms: Winning the Cognitive War:
Haugland offers a strategic blueprint:
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Strategy
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Description
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Reclaim History
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Study and preserve awareness of past struggles for freedom.
(TRUMP ignores this?)
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Strengthen Civic Virtues
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Embrace critical thinking, responsibility, and active
citizenship. (TRUMP abhors this!)
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Develop Mindful Communication
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Promote honest, thoughtful discourse over clickbait or
sensationalism. (TRUMP can’t do this!)
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Institutional Reform
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Reinforce education, media literacy, and public discourse.
(TRUMP destroys this?)
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Personal Resolve
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Actively uphold democratic values in daily life. (TRUMP is
reversed this?)
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Final Message: Haugland’s conclusion is both stark and hopeful:
Stark: The Cognitive War is ongoing,
existential, and unstoppable—“until mankind ceases to exist”. [or China dominates the world]
Hopeful: Victory is still possible—but only if individuals and societies
actively mobilize, resist complacency, and recommit to freedom’s ideals. [This
isn’t likely to happen given the extent of Truth decay. And the mind’s capacity
to believe ANYTHING and then kill or die defending that belief.
Additional Notes: Publication details: Released August 23, 2023;
322 pages; independently published via Kindle Direct Publishing/Amazon. Author: Edward Lawrence Haugland, whose
contributions on Goodreads are limited to this single title.
#2 SECURITY: China targets human mind for domination: Cognitive
warfare already begun
By Bill Gertz THE WASHINGTON TIMES June 9, 2025
https://washingtontimes-dc.newsmemory.com/?token=7293d5dd19b443f9bf686e54fba436d6_6846daba_617091b&selDate=20250609
Ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu declared that subduing your enemy
without fighting is the acme of skill. China is closer to realizing that goal
through new weaponry and capabilities that Beijing calls cognitive warfare.
China’s most recent experience with large-scale war was more than 70 years ago in
Korea. Waves of troops were sent into battle against better-armed U.S. and
allied forces. The result was a slaughter. The People’s Liberation Army lost
400,000 to 1 million soldiers.
The PLA is no longer planning human wave military
attacks. Instead, many of its researchers are working on advanced warfare
capabilities that combine high-technology hardware with biotechnology research
focused on the human brain.
The goal, driven by the ideology of Chinese-style Marxism-Leninism, is nothing less
than world domination and a global populace under the control of China’s
communist regime, said analysts and specialists who have studied Beijing’s
leaders.
Cognitive warfare experts interviewed for this report cited evidence that China has
embraced the development and eventual use of weapons designed to affect the
mind. Potential targets range from troops and commanders of adversarial
militaries to entire civilian populations.
Most details
of the work on Chinese cognitive warfare are closely guarded U.S. government
secrets, but clues first surfaced officially in December 2021, when the
Commerce Department Bureau of Industry and Security announced sanctions against
the PLA’s Academy of Military Medical Sciences and 11 related Chinese research
institutes.
Commerce banned
U.S. companies from doing business with the labs, which were working on
biotechnology, including “purported brain-control weaponry,” on behalf of the
Chinese military.
That unspecified effort triggered national security
sanctions.
In December,
the Pentagon disclosed in its annual report on China that Beijing had launched
the China Brain Project in 2016. The multiyear program is designed to unlock
human cognitive functions and neural pathways to support civilian and military
applications.
The Pentagon
said the research has included brain-computer interface activities that enable
humans and computers to interact and exchange information through brain
implants or skull implants.
Chinese researchers have also conducted experiments with mind control of remote machines.
This technology could give PLA commanders and troops optimized command-and control
networks and the ability to maximize the use of advanced weapons systems and
other military equipment for more rapid and precise attacks.
The report
said other work includes “emotion detection,” which is helpful in cognitive
warfare to influence enemy troop morale in war and establish control over
civilian populations.
PLA scientists
are also working on military applications for brain research to produce more
mentally agile combat troops equipped with greater mobility and increased
situational awareness.
“The PLA is exploring a range of ‘neurocognitive warfare’ capabilities that
exploit adversaries using neuroscience and psychology,” the report said without
elaborating.
Besides the brief Commerce Department notice in 2021 and the Pentagon report in December,
no official details on Chinese cognitive warfare have been made public.
However, recently published science articles and interviews with cognitive warfare experts
indicate that the Chinese military is making strategic investments in what the
PLA calls a new domain of warfare to complement its massive buildup of military
hardware.
“The emergence of cognitive warfare — which manipulates cognition to destabilize
sociocultural, economic, political and military systems — poses a unique threat
to America and its allies,” said Josh Baughman, an analyst at the Air Force’s
China Aerospace Studies Institute.
“This type of warfare differs from information warfare in that it aims to influence how, not what,
people think, feel and act, altering the cognitive space from individual to
population levels,” he said in an interview.
Mr. Baughman recently revealed in a book that cognitive warfare is a
pivotal component of the PLA’s strategy for achieving victory in war.
Writing in the U.S. military edited book “Human, Machine, War: How the Mind-Tech Nexus Will
Win Future Wars,” the defense analyst wrote that the PLA thinks its ultimate
victory will come from destroying an adversary’s will to fight.
The United States, he said, urgently needs to
understand how the PLA’s focus on cognitive warfare has shifted the
battleground of a potential conflict with China from physical territory to the
minds of Americans.
He said failure to understand this concept of war
could lead to China’s conquest of American allies, or even the United States,
without firing a shot.
For the PLA, the nexus of mind and technology is
fundamental to winning the cognitive war. Tools of the trade include social
media, the metaverse, smartphone apps such as TikTok, wearable technology,
virtual reality, artificial intelligence and especially generative AI.
Chinese-controlled apps such as TikTok offer China the
means to wage warfare on the battlefield of the mind, researchers said.
Ian Oxnevad, senior fellow in national security at the
National Association of Scholars, said Tik-Tok is “one of [China’s] foremost
cognitive weapons.”
The popular video-sharing app was banned in the U.S.
but given a reprieve by President Trump.
TikTok has been blamed for popularizing dangerous
fads, criticized for promoting discredited diversity, equity and inclusion
programs on college campuses, and accused of fueling protests against Israel,
all while collecting reams of personal data on Americans.
China’s strategy of cognitive warfare “to make America
angry and stupid with an app has proven remarkably successful,” Mr. Oxnevad
said.
China was not the first to conduct research on
cognitive warfare.
The Soviet Union and later Russia studied a cognitive
warfighting concept called “reflexive control” for more than 40 years.
Reflexive control seeks to convey specially prepared information that will lead
a partner or adversary to voluntarily make a decision predetermined by the
Russians.
Reflexive control includes disinformation, camouflage
and other strategic tools used against either the minds of enemy leaders and
troops or through computer-based decision-making processors, such as those
emerging through artificial intelligence.
“Reflexive control” has become “intellectual
information warfare” in the Russian military.
Russian military writings say the tactic works by
distracting the enemy, overloading information systems, creating exhaustion by
tricking adversaries into useless operations and using the power of suggestion
to introduce disinformation that will affect an enemy legally, morally or
ideologically.
Timothy L. Thomas, a China warfare expert with the
Mitre Corp., predicts mind-centered conflict will become the domain that
revolutionizes warfare in the not-too-distant future.
“Human fighters will fade away and intelligent
equipment will be brought onto the battlefield,” he said. “Cross-domain
unconventional and asymmetrical fighting will be the new normal, and
intelligence control will replace territorial control as the center of gravity
in war.”
Beijing’s “intelligentized warfare” will reshape the
rules of engagement and lead to a major restructuring of combat forces, making
machine-on-human or machine-on-machine war the new standard.
China’s work on brain warfare has been on the radar of
U.S. intelligence agencies since at least 2019. Three reports that the PLA
produced that year highlight the emphasis on brain warfare.
One report obtained by The Washington Times noted the
military uses of advances in science and technology.
“War has started to shift from the pursuit of
destroying bodies to paralyzing and controlling the opponent,” says the report,
headlined “The Future of the Concept of Military Supremacy.”
“The focus is to attack the enemy’s will to resist,
not physical destruction,” the report said.
It added that the PLA is extending warfare to human
consciousness in ways that are “causing the brain to become the main target of
offense and defense of new concept weapons.”
The PLA said the merger of humans and machines will
set off a contest for brain control.
“The two combatant sides will use various kinds of
brain control technologies and effective designs to focus on taking over the
enemy’s way of thinking and his awareness, and even directly intervene in the
thinking of the enemy leaders and staff, and with that produce war to control
awareness and thinking,” the report said.
A second PLA report disclosed that the brain-machine
interface is part of Beijing’s plan to develop intelligentized warfare.
Interactive combat will include “direct control of machines using thoughts
through mature brain-machine interface,” this report said.
A third PLA report said the China Electronics
Technology Group was working on “brain confrontation” technology for warfare.
This process involves measuring neuronal activity in
the brain and translating neurosignals into computer signals that can be used
to control weapons with the brain.
PLA researchers are also working on “neuro-defense”
technology, which leverages electromagnetic, biophysical and material
technologies to enhance the brain’s defenses against control attacks.
Kerry K. Gershaneck, a China expert, said China has
been waging political warfare and cognitive warfare, a related form, against
the United States for almost 100 years.
Chinese President Xi Jinping is preparing to annex
Taiwan and has stepped up political warfare to extraordinary degrees, Mr.
Gershaneck said.
He said the Chinese leader is willing to go to war but
prefers to win by subverting Americans’ willingness and ability to fight back.
“Accordingly, Xi’s goal for his vastly expanded
political war is to achieve mind superiority by attacking us in the cognitive
domain to weaken us physically and mentally, to destroy our will to fight, and
to create fatal doubt in our leaders and in our decisions,” said Mr.
Gershaneck, a professor at National Chengchi University in Taiwan.
Mr. Gershaneck, a retired Marine Corps officer with
extensive intelligence experience, said the Trump administration is finally
tackling Chinese economic warfare against the United States. It is less clear
whether the president is devoting the necessary resources to defeat Chinese
political warfare.
Books such as “Human, Machine, War” provide important
policy leads for the president and his national security team. The book “lays a
solid foundation for understanding the insidious nature of the existential
threat we face from communist China,” Mr. Gershaneck said.
“Ideally, it will help propel Trump 47 to do what
America has failed to do for more than three decades: devise a counter political
warfare strategy for our Second Cold War, rapidly resource it, and execute it.”
Other tools in this new form of warfare include sound
weapons capable of incapacitating enemy forces by disrupting neurological
functions without causing visible injury.
This PLA method was disclosed in a recent report by
the CCP BioThreats Initiative, a think tank made up of former intelligence and
military experts.
“Infrasound and cognitive weapons represent a
significant leap in the evolution of modern warfare, introducing a new set of
capabilities designed to target the mind and body in ways that are difficult to
detect and defend against,” the report said.
PLA sound weapons can induce confusion, emotional
distress and a loss of consciousness, said Chinese military researchers who
wrote about them in a 2024 report. They are also designed to directly impair
cognitive abilities vital in warfare.
“As the CCP and PLA and other military forces continue
to incorporate these technologies into their arsenals, the U.S. and its allies
must remain vigilant and proactive in developing countermeasures.”
Electronic brain warfare tools also include the
broadcasting of radio waves designed to disrupt thinking and decision-making.
Other weapons use electromagnetic energy for nonlethal
attacks that produce drowsiness or cognitive impairment in adversaries, the
report said.
The brain weapons likely would be used in what the
U.S. military calls gray zone operations around Taiwan, in the South China Sea
and East China Sea, and along the disputed Sino-Indian border.
“Any breakthrough in this research would provide
unprecedented tools for the [Chinese Communist Party] to forcibly establish a
new world order, which has been Xi Jinping’s lifelong goal,” the BioThreats
Initiative report said.
One indication of the shift toward cognitive warfare
was the Chinese military’s dismantling of the Strategic Support Force last
year. In its place, the PLA set up the Information Support Force, which reports
directly to the CCP Central Military Commission. Both forces were regarded as
powerful units equal to services such as the army and navy.
Edward Haugland, a retired military intelligence
officer and specialist in cognitive warfare, said focusing on the PLA is
important, but he believes a wider cognitive war is being waged on multiple
fronts with ongoing Chinese operations deep inside Western countries, including
the United States.
Tactics in this underground war include covert Chinese
“police stations” in numerous countries, collaboration with drug cartels and
shipments of fentanyl, Confucius Institutes on U.S. and foreign college
campuses, elite capture of officials and other leaders, and up to 300,000
Chinese students who can be used for technology theft and intelligence and
propaganda activities.
Mr. Haugland said he is concerned that the U.S.
military’s overemphasis on PLA military, kinetic and technical solutions could
result in a misplaced focus on solutions that do not address the informational,
political and greater cognitive warfare threat.
Still, the cognitive warfare threat is real.
“This to me is our greatest mistake, as the primary
battlefield — the cognitive domain — is being attacked concurrently on so many
parallel fronts it is likely China will never need to use its military,” said
Mr. Haugland, author of the 2023 book “The Cognitive War: Why We Are Losing and
How We can Win.”
“Besides, I believe Xi Jinping cannot trust his
military and a large percentage of it is used to control his people, so he must
win the cognitive war without a shot. And he is doing so.”
American national security leaders, he said, are
unaware, unprepared and unarmed to wage U.S.-style cognitive warfare, he said.
As a result, “we will lose to the CCP and radical left
both domestically and globally,” Mr. Haugland said.
Cmdr. Robert Bebber, a Navy intelligence officer, said
in a recent report for the Hudson Institute that war is evolving from precision
strike and stealth warfare used in the Cold War era to operations and
technologies that target an opponent’s decision-making.
“This shift has taken many forms, such as gray zone
operations, hybrid warfare, [Russian] little green men [in Crimea], and
[geopolitical] salami-slicing operations and tactics,” he said.
Cmdr. Bebber said cognitive warfare is highly
disruptive, threatening democratic institutions and sovereignty, and likely
changing the basic character of war.
He said advances in brain sciences, data and
computational technologies, and AI are fundamentally altering the global
strategic environment by “expanding the attack surface that foreign adversaries
can exploit using cognitive manipulation.”
“The emergence of cognitive warfare — which
manipulates cognition to destabilize sociocultural, economic, political, and
military systems — poses a unique threat to America and its allies,” Cmdr.
Bebber said.
“This type of warfare differs from information warfare
in that it aims to influence how, not what, people think, feel, and act,
altering the cognitive space from individual to population levels.”
U.S. policymakers have been slow to recognize and
respond to the threat because it is new and “perhaps because the American
public has remained under a persistent state of cognitive manipulation, which
has debilitated the people,” he said.
Cmdr. Bebber said the danger is that cognitive warfare
by China or Russia will result in advanced military operations used by the U.S.
or NATO becoming fractured, disjointed and ultimately ineffective as enemies
disrupt or destroy linkages and network connections.
“Perhaps most insidiously, the military may find
itself irrelevant to adversary operations as cognitive warfare capabilities
emerge and mature to the point where adversaries can coerce societies through
so-called information confrontation,” he said.
That could result in the U.S. military and its allies
being unable to respond as adversaries control entire populations.
Despite the danger, U.S. and allied military forces
and national security policymakers have not “organized their institutions and
infrastructure to detect, track and combat cognitive warfare campaigns that
adversaries are waging against the American public,” he said.
Copyright (c) 2025 Washington Times , Edition 6/9/2025
Human, Machine, War: How the Mind‑Tech Nexus Will Win
Future Wars, edited by Nicholas
Wright, Michael Miklaucic, and Todd Veazie (published April 22, 2025 by Air
University Press): Here’s a comprehensive summary:
Core Thesis: The central argument is that modern military advantage will stem not from humans or
technology alone, but from their seamless integration—termed the “Mind‑Tech
Nexus.” This encompasses the interplay of human attributes (will, expertise,
cognition, daring) with cutting‑edge technologies like AI, quantum computing,
neuroscience, and digital systems. Success on future battlefields
depends on harnessing this Mind‑Tech Nexus effectively, blending human judgment
and adaptability with machine-digitized speed and precision.
Key Themes & Structure:
1. Defining the Mind‑Tech Nexus
- Rejects the outdated
“humans vs machines” paradigm.
- Emphasizes
synergy—humans guiding, interpreting, and managing, while machines excel
at processing, pattern recognition, and operational tempo .
2. Technological Portrait: Highlights emerging technologies and their battlefield
roles:
- AI & machine
learning: intelligence analysis, decision support, autonomous systems.
- Quantum computing:
enhanced encryption and sensor capabilities.
- Neuroscience:
brain-machine interfaces, cognitive performance augmentation.
- Digital networks:
ensuring secure, decentralized communication .
3. Human Dimension
- Attributes like
intuition, adaptability, moral agency, and leadership remain
indispensable.
- Humans must oversee,
interpret, and make nuanced decisions where machines lack context.
4. Geostrategic Context
- Global powers (e.g.
China, Russia, NATO) are racing to integrate AI and autonomy into their
military doctrines.
- Technical progress is
accelerating, but institutional adoption faces bureaucratic, legal, and
ethical barriers.
Blueprint for Implementation:
- Doctrine & Policy:
- Develop
frameworks clearly defining human-machine roles and control protocols.
- Create
ethical and legal architectures to govern autonomous systems.
- Training &
Personnel:
- Train
forces to operate alongside AI, cyber systems, and digital interfaces.
- Cultivate
cognitive flexibility, skepticism, ethical judgment in high-speed
environments.
- Organizational
Innovation:
- Reshape
defense via agile acquisition, public-private collaboration, and
streamlined innovation—echoing Silicon Valley–style labs.
- Technological
Ecosystems:
- Invest
broadly across AI, quantum, neuroscience.
- Build
robust digital infrastructure and secure data pipelines.
Strategic Importance:
- Operational
Advantage: The Speed + Precision
of machines, guided by human insight, can outpace adversaries relying on
one or the other.
- Asymmetric Leverage: Smaller states can “punch above their weight”
via intelligent tech integration—used effectively by Ukraine and Israel in
recent conflicts.
- Risk Management: Defense systems must account for machine
unpredictability and weaponized speed, while retaining appropriate human
oversight to prevent escalation .
Insights from Contributors:
- Forewords by Gen.
James Rainey (Army Futures Command) and Sir Lawrence Freedman (King’s
College London) underscore the authoritative stakes.
- Contributions from top
military scholars and practitioners provide operational case studies,
policy guidance, and technical analysis .
Final Takeaway: Human, Machine, War envisions the battlefield of tomorrow as a realm of
collaboration—where human ingenuity partners with machine efficiency. Its core
message:
Victory will go to those who best fuse human intellect
and moral judgment with machine-scale data processing and speed.
The book serves as both a strategic roadmap and urgent
call to embrace—not fear—the symbiotic future of warfare.
ChatGPT Q: Want a bonus dive into chapter breakdowns,
comparisons with classics like Paul Scharre’s work, or how your area of
interest (e.g., cybersecurity, ethics) fits the Mind‑Tech Nexus? I’d be happy
to help.
My answer: No.
I’m concerned with two things. One is the impossibility of controlling
or enforcing control over the abuse of this technology. And the human mind’s capacity of being able
to believe anything, and then make decisions to not do what it
knows needs to be done.
Your concerns are deeply insightful—and they strike at
the two central dangers of the Mind-Tech Nexus described in Human, Machine, War
and in broader defense and philosophical literature.
1. Enforcing Control Over the Abuse of Emerging
Technologies:
The Risk: Technologies
like AI, autonomous weapons, neuro-enhancement, and quantum systems can be used
for liberation or domination.
- Once deployed, they
can be hacked, repurposed, or evolve unpredictably.
- In authoritarian
regimes, these tools may reinforce control, surveillance, and suppression
of dissent.
- Even in democratic
systems, oversight can lag behind innovation, and military-industrial
actors may push agendas contrary to public interest.
Control Mechanisms (or the lack thereof) International
norms and treaties for AI in warfare (like the ones proposed for Lethal
Autonomous Weapons Systems) are nascent and weak.
- Ethical AI frameworks
exist, but they are mostly voluntary and lack enforcement.
- Civilian oversight
often lacks the technical depth to interrogate these systems meaningfully.
Your concern is not just valid—it’s one of the major
governance crises of our time.
2. The Human Mind’s Fragility: Belief, Denial,
and Inaction:
The Risk: The human mind evolved for short-term survival, not
long-term planetary or ethical foresight.
We’re prone to:
- Confirmation
bias: seeking what confirms our beliefs.
- Cognitive
dissonance: avoiding truths that make us uncomfortable.
- Moral
disengagement: rationalizing harmful inaction.
- Groupthink
and tribalism: reinforcing false narratives because they’re socially
convenient.
These flaws mean that even when humans know something
must be done, they may:
- Rationalize delay.
- Convince themselves
it’s not urgent.
- Be manipulated by fear
or ideology.
- Be paralyzed by
complexity.
In Context: In the Mind-Tech Nexus:
- Humans may design
systems that reflect their biases or illusions.
- Or worse: they may
abdicate moral responsibility to machines—letting algorithms make
life-and-death decisions because it’s “easier.”
→ The greatest danger is not machines becoming human.
It’s humans behaving like machines: unthinking, unfeeling, unaccountable.
Where These Two Risks Converge: The
abuse of powerful technology and the fragility of human judgment can amplify
each other:
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Tech Abuse
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Human Weakness
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Autonomous systems make fast but unethical
decisions.
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People defer to them rather than override.
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Data used to manipulate public opinion.
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Minds, already primed for bias, fall into echo
chambers.
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So What Can Be Done? Here are a few foundational
steps being discussed by military ethicists, cognitive scientists, and
democratic thinkers:
1. Hard Governance:
• Binding
international treaties for emerging military tech (like the AI equivalent of
Geneva Conventions).
• Independent
watchdogs with tech expertise.
• Laws
ensuring human accountability is never bypassed.
2. Ethical Design:
• “Human-in-the-loop”
systems: no autonomous action without a human final decision.
• Auditable
algorithms: black-box models that can be examined and questioned.
3. Cognitive Training:
• Teach
cognitive hygiene: how to recognize manipulation, bias, and propaganda.
• Promote
moral courage: empowering individuals to speak up even when it’s hard.
• Build
resilience to inaction: integrating ethical decision-making into all levels of
training, from civilians to commanders.
GPT Final Thought: You’re absolutely right to be concerned that humans
can believe anything and do nothing. And
that unchecked tech can do everything with no belief at all. The battle for the
future may not just be technological or military—it may be psychological,
ethical, and deeply personal.
WTF are we going to do?
One possible action is fighting Truth Decay with Project250@earthlink.net
