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“. . . military psychologists tell me that the best practitioners in their field are those trained in child psychiatry; eighteen- and nineteen-year-old men are, in the clinician's view, still children.”

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Book:Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

Source: Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

“The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis came well before the current age of AI, yet computers were in use and technology played a critical role in the form of U-2 spy plane photos that showed Soviet missile installations in Cuba. Protocols and standard operating procedures were in place, ... Still, it was human judgment as displayed in Khrushchev's letter to Kennedy and Kennedy's decision to remove U.S. missiles from Turkey and Italy that defused the crisis. ... human judgment, not computers and processes, avoided nuclear war. It's instructive that the one case, albeit fictional, in which nuclear war resulted was [the movie] "Fail Safe," where a computer malfunction had the last word and attempts at human intervention by the president and the commander's wife failed due to strict adherence to protocols. ... Delegation of attack decisions to AI, however sophisticated, greatly increases the risk of nuclear war.”

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Book:MoneyGPT: AI and the Threat to the Global Economy

Source: MoneyGPT: AI and the Threat to the Global Economy

“The Soviets had ... built an early warning radar system with computer linkages using a primitive kind of AI code-named Oko. On September 26, 1983, ... the system malfunctioned and reported 5 incoming ICBMs from the United States. Oko alarms sounded and the computer screen flashed "LAUNCH." Under the protocols, the "LAUNCH" display was not a warning but a computer-generated order to retaliate. Lieutenant Colonel Stanislov Petrov of the Soviet Air Defense Forces saw the computer order and had to choose immediately between treating the order as a computer malfunction or alerting to senior officers, who would likely commence a counterattack. Petrov was Oko's codeveloper and knew the system made mistakes. He also estimated that if the attack were real, the U.S. would use far more than 5 missiles. Petrov was right. The computer had misread the sun's reflection off nearby clouds as incoming missiles.”

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Book:MoneyGPT: AI and the Threat to the Global Economy

Source: MoneyGPT: AI and the Threat to the Global Economy