Why is the West losing to China?

"A still from a video released by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) that outlines its concept for a lunar base to be developed across the next couple of decades. (Image credit: China National Space Administration)" (Space.com, China plans to build moon base at the lunar south pole by 2035)

Why is it not the same who wins the race to the moon? The best places on that small world are always limited. So, whoever is first gets the best places. Moon poles are the safest places for the moon bases. Because the cosmic radiation is weakest in that position. Things like thermal changes are smallest at the moon's poles. 

We all heard that NASA is losing the race to the moon. But nobody asks why? And why is this race so important? We all know that there is another moon race. This time, the racers are China and the USA. And we know that China is winning this game. But why does this happen? Why is China so innovative? The first reason for losing the moon race is the loss of budget at NASA. The agency lacks the resources to fulfill all its responsibilities. Another thing is the safety reason. Chinese must not follow the same safety standards. With Western space agencies. And that makes their work more effective. The third thing is that. The Chinese government will give. It’s all support for the moon race. The next question is, why is this race so important? Moon offers a good environment. To test things like nuclear rockets. 

And it offers. Good platform for space telescopes. But those moon telescopes. They can also make intelligence missions. Those telescopes see things from the Earth. The fact is that. The moon offers. A good place for missile bases. And the moon base. It can serve as a biological laboratory that can serve both civil and military purposes. The Moon could be. A perfect place for biological weapon laboratories. When we think about the moon and military bases on it. There is a possibility of creating missile bases on the moon. In the same way. Those bases can operate with weapons that nobody expected. 

"Elon Musk proposes ‘cannon-like’ mass drivers on moon to build orbital AI data centers." (Interesting Engineering)

There is a possibility. To launch nuclear weapons or kinetic ammunition to Earth from the moon by using magnetic mass drivers. The mass drivers that can support orbital building projects can also be used to launch nuclear grenades to Earth. Or those systems can shoot a salvo of kinetic projectiles to the ground. Those mass-drivers can make the “Rods of God” true. The salvo of ceramic-tungsten flechettes can destroy entire cities. But those systems. They can be used to launch miniature space shuttles. 

The moon. It can be the home for the ion cannons. Those ion systems can shoot ions to the Earth orbiter. And those systems can be devastating to satellites. 

But those systems can also launch small-sized nuclear grenades or even antimatter ammunition to Earth. About a 300 mm nuclear grenade would be very hard to detect. If it's shot from a magnetic accelerator, that system. It can be invisible until it reaches the atmosphere. 

 In the cases of antimatter, the system. It can create antimatter by using the same methods. That CERN uses. Then those antimatter particles can be launched to the higher atmosphere. There. Annihilation makes extremely powerful radiation. That radiation can kill people in large areas. And it can form high-energy plasma that causes terrible things. The antimatter cannon is a normal ion cannon that shoots antimatter. In the atmosphere. Antimatter particles annihilate immediately, releasing an extremely high-energy load. A gram of antimatter can destroy an entire planet. 

The antimatter system. It can affect the target directly. Or, it can affect the medium first. That thing can be the capsule where those antimatter particles hit the wall of their capsule. Then annihilation transfers energy to the environment, forming plasma. If researchers want to create a particle beam that involves antimatter particles, the system must create a hole in the air. That denies that the antimatter particles interact before they reach their targets. This means that in real life, the Teller bomb. Works like this. Antimatter particles would be in the magnetic capsule. That keeps those particles hovering in a vacuum. Then the system removes the magnetic field. And then the system pulls those particles to the wall of the chamber.

“The United States faces a critical inflection point as China accelerates its push to dominate the next frontier of warfare, the fusion of biotechnology and artificial intelligence (AI). “ (Interesting Engineering, Gene-edited super-soldiers with AI power could be unleashed by China, warns US report)

“According to a new report by the US National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology, China’s systematic state-driven approach is reshaping the global biotechnology landscape, and the implications for national security are surprising.”(Interesting Engineering, Gene-edited super-soldiers with AI power could be unleashed by China, warns US report)

“The Chinese government cares less. Than Western governments about things like public opinion. This means there is a possibility to create projects that Western societies cannot understand or accept. Things like genetically engineered super soldiers might be in service after a couple of years. Those genetically engineered super soldiers could be extremely loyal and intelligent. “(Interesting Engineering, Gene-edited super-soldiers with AI power could be unleashed by China, warns US report)

And they might not have. A similar feeling to normal humans. Maybe those creatures have the same genome that makes wolves loyal. And. There is a possibility that their muscles and senses are improved. In the same way, their sexual behavior could be killed. This means those things will not tell things in bed. And that thing means that. The only thing that those creatures serve. It would be the Chinese government. They might have a thing. Called controlled sociopathy. It’s possible. That. There is some kind of switch. That can activate those things. 

https://www.extremetech.com/science/cern-just-moved-antimatter-by-truck-for-the-first-time

https://futurism.com/space/nasa-losing-space-race-china

https://interestingengineering.com/military/china-genetically-enhanced-super-soldiers

https://interestingengineering.com/space/musk-proposes-cannon-like-mass-drivers-on-moon

https://www.space.com/china-moon-base-south-pole-2035

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment

Drones cause a requirement for new defense.

Israel plans to install laser weapons in its helicopters and aircraft. Those systems can be used to fight against the drone threat. The laser weapon does not require ammunition, and theoretically, its ammunition capacity is unlimited. The laser weapon. That hovers above the ground. In. A helicopter or aircraft can be used against low-flying drones, other aircraft, or incoming missiles. This means the jet fighter can destroy missiles that are shot at it. 

Laser and microwave beams are things. That. It can also be used against things like enemy electric supply or vehicles. In some visions, the jet fighter radars can be used to give high-power microwave impulses against their targets. This makes enemy fighters harder to operate. 

The laser systems. Those that are used against the drones can use AI-based technology to complete their missions. The laser system. It can use similar technology. That is used in laser-based bug traps. That kills things like flies from the room. The system that destroys drones. It uses a high-energy beam. Like 10-100 kW systems. 

The requirement for the new systems in drone defense. It is urgent. The drone, even if it doesn’t use AI, is. A very big threat. The AI-based systems make drones make evasion movements. But. In all cases, there is a danger that the defender runs out of ammunition. The defender uses $4-5 million Patriot missiles against drones. That costs about $20000-60000 per unit. The problem is those HESA Shahed drones. 

They can also carry chemical and biological warheads. Or maybe also armour penetration warheads. This means that the defender. It cannot let any of those drones pass the defense. The problem is that those drones can be launched thousands against targets. Those systems can be dangerous. Especially if they hit things like electric supply systems. 

https://www.defensenews.com/global/mideast-africa/2026/03/18/israel-to-mount-lasers-on-fighter-jets-and-helicopters/

https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2025/09/09/israels-rafael-touts-iron-beam-antimissile-lasers-at-dsei-fair/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Beam

We must pay the price. When we outsource things to AI.

People already outsource their thinking to AI. And this is the method that will have its price. Of course, the AI needs more and more electricity. But then. We must understand the price. That we must pay in those cases is a much deeper thing. Than just some electric bill. If we outsource things like making art for the AI. We can publish nice images. But we are not the thing that makes those images. 

If we always use AI for writing, we won’t be the ones who make the work. If the AI does the work. The effect on us is the same as if Rembrandt made the work. The painting would be nice. It seems nice on the wall. But the thing is that the work is not done by us. We would not learn to paint. The painting didn’t teach us anything. And if we use AI to make images. We will never get the skills to make paintings. In the same way.  AI can generate things like poems. That means we can theoretically lose our skills to make paintings and texts. 

Outsourcing thinking to robots and AI is an easy choice. AI makes things easier. Our customers must not wait for the data. This makes our services more effective. But the problem is that we will give our ability to think to a machine. We can make complicated formulas. And reports by using the AI. This means we can make those things without reading skills. Or, in this case, we must say that the AI does all the work.

The situation is similar to a situation. There, we outsource those jobs to workers, and then, without even looking at those reports, resend them to our boss. This means that we outsource that work to henchmen. Even a baby can make these kinds of things. And that is a dangerous thing. The AI is an effective tool. When it must collect, process, and sort information. When AI can use existing mathematical formulas. And it gets all the information in the form. That it can change. To a computing process. It’s the tool that beats everything. 

If we want to make our lives too easy, we pay a price. About that thing. What if we will never rise from our beds? What if we use robots that offer us the ability to use exoskeletons for everyday things? What if we spend all our lives in a tank? The robot butlers will serve us. And provide. A possibility. To interact with our environment. The price that we will pay is this. We will be helpless without those robots. If those robots lose their connections. We will not have anything that repairs our tank. There we lay, eat, and use those robots. 

But if the AI must make a new formula. Or make something completely new, it can turn ineffective. The AI cannot think in abstractions. It can collect, compare, and connect existing information. But it lacks complete abstraction. So, the AI is here and now. And that means AI doesn’t have imagination. The AI is in trouble if it must create something completely new. Without the right sensors. And without the right dataset, the AI cannot make anything. 

The AI can make music that pleases a certain type of human if it can compare sounds. It is created with the EEG. Of humans. The AI sees. From those curves. If the sound effect or series of sound effects pleases the person. This means that the AI could make. A perfect series of sounds. But those sounds will not necessarily mean anything. So, the nonsense series of sounds can please humans, but they might not necessarily involve any useful information. The AI can make many things. And if we want to follow orders that the AI gives, that is our choice. 

The AI can be a tool that makes things effective. But it has a price. The price is that our ability to think turns superficial. When AI makes reports for us, we face a situation where this is a job that any 10-year-old human can do. Any human can read those things from the papers. We can put any ten-year-old kid to read books about quantum technology. But that person might not understand a thing about those things. People can repeat words without understanding what they mean. 

We can outsource things like chess games to AI. The AI can calculate moves very effectively. Especially if the chess computer or chess program is connected with it. The system can show its moves to us. And then we must just repeat those moves. So, who is the best chess player? The answer is that we could also make that thing under the command of Garry Gasparov. In that case, Gasparov tells us how to move those buttons. So, we could say that the winner of the game will be Gasparov or AI. The robot hand can always make the same things. That regular person does in that game. 

https://bigthink.com/philosophy/the-hidden-cost-of-letting-ai-make-your-life-easier/

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-executive-thinking-survey

Can the AI allow humans to lead?

Can the AI allow humans to lead? And make a doctoral thesis without the ability to read? Can we make those things by giving commands to AI?

The effect of AI is that human IQ doesn’t mean as much. As it used to be in the past. The high IQ meant that the person can analyze information faster. The key element is flexibility. How fast the actor can react to change. If the AI has models. That. It can use models. Those are stored in its memory. The AI can be a very effective tool. Those models are prototypes like LEGO bricks. The morphing neural network allows AI to interconnect those models. And observations that sensors. Get and share. For the LLM (large language model).

But then the AI came. The AI is a tool that can turn almost everybody into a compositor. 

And another thing is that. Those AI tools can make things faster and more effectively than humans. 

This brings an idea. That may be somewhere in the future. We must not even have reading skills to make reports. We must only give orders to the AI. And then it makes everything that we want. But the problem is that. We must give those missions in the right way. If we give orders the wrong way, we face a terrible mess. 

(BigTHink, Why your IQ no longer matters in the era of AI)

But. There is one thing. That determines how effective the AI is. That is how a person can articulate the mission. That person gives to the AI. When we talk about. Cases that mathematicians beat the LLM. We must realize that the AI requires very clear and well-argued missions. The AI can be an effective tool to solve mathematical problems in certain cases. We should remember that mathematicians make formulas. 

When we give orders to AI, we must tell it. Which formula must it use? So if we want to give orders to the AI. About things. Like calculating the area of a triangle. As an example. We must determine that the AI should use the Pythagorean theorem. Then we must determine how the system must divide the triangle. The Pythagorean theorem can be used for that problem. And then the AI requires all dimensions of the triangle. The fact is this. If the orders are not given as they should be, the system is unable to accomplish the mission. 

Mathematics is an exact science. So, if the mission is given to the AI in the right way, like how to calculate missing angles or the hypotenuse. And cathets. The AI is helpless. We must give our orders to the AI. So that it can select sin and cosine. Or tangent in the right points. If orders are made by using the wrong methodology. Like calculating the area. Or the triangle. But we forget the angles of its corners, or we forget to mention the degrees and length of the sides of the triangle. 

https://bigthink.com/business/why-your-iq-no-longer-matters-in-the-era-of-ai/

Atomic vibrations catapult electrons into almost the speed of light.

"Artist’s illustration of the interplay of a vibrational mode in electron-transfer processes. Credit: Pratyush Ghosh. Scientists have discovered that electrons in solar materials can be launched across molecules almost as fast as nature allows, driven by tiny atomic vibrations. (ScitechDaily, Electrons Catapult Across Solar Materials Near Nature’s Speed Limit)

When atoms or molecules. Quantum field. Moves backward. They deliver energy into electrons. In that process. This forms the structure in the quantum field, which acts like a microvacuum or microvoid. That void could pull the electron forward. Into a speed that is almost as high as the speed of light. 

New observations about things. Like electron behavior in solar materials. Show that molecules can catapult electrons near the speed of light. The molecular vibrations. They can catapult electrons. Into a speed that is as high as the speed of light. These kinds of systems can make many things. In the next-generation engineering. The ability to accelerate electrons to a very high speed. That makes it possible to create next-generation antimatter systems. There is possiblity. To create a ball-shaped structure that can create a positron cloud around it. 

The antimatter bomb doesn’t necessarily affect straight with antimatter. The antimatter. It can affect. Through the medium like water. The antimatter, or annihilation, delivers energy to water. The expansion of water causes a detonation. That is like a nuclear explosion without radioactive fallout. 

There is an introduction to an idea to destroy. Dangerous asteroids. By using the high-yield hydrogen bomb. The system can be based on the same technology as the MOP (Massive Ordnance Penetrator) uses. In some visions, the system that destroys the asteroid uses an MOP-variant that launches high-energy plasma against the dangerous asteroid. The system could look like HEAT(High-explosive anti-tank) ammunition, where the neutron bomb creates the plasma. 

The MOP impacts the asteroid, and then, in the middle of it, the hydrogen bomb explodes. The nuclear-MOP would destroy those asteroids. But the same system. It can also. Turn into an effective weapon against the underground missile bases. 

The question is: could it be possible to create nuclear power without using nuclear bombs? The answer. It could be antimatter. 

This kind of system. It can make it possible to create a high-power energy load. If that kind of system delivers positrons into a water or some liquid hydrocarbon or liquid hydrogen tank. That causes a very strong shockwave. And that kind of system. It can make it possible to create new types of explosives. The system. It can involve an antimatter tank. 

Or. It can be a system that creates antimatter in it. The vibration can accelerate the antimatter against matter.  The power of that kind of thing depends on how the antimatter can expand the liquid. This kind of. An explosive system. It can be used against asteroids, or it can turn things like bunker-buster bombs more effective.

In those things. The antimatter does not affect. Straight to the target directly. It affects the target through the medium. If that thing is in the system. That looks like. The MOP (Massive Ordnance Penetrator) bomb. The hyperhot water flows into the crack. And that expansion can cause a destructive effect. The system is filled with some liquid. And then the antimatter is released in that liquid. This type of system. It could create high-energy plasma without. A nuclear explosive. In those cases. 

There is no need to use. A lot of antimatter. It’s enough that the antimatter transportator allows antimatter to touch the wall of its cargo canister. In that transportation cannister. The magnetic field keeps those anti-electrons or anti-protons hovering away from the wall of that system. When electricity is cut from those magnets, the antimatter touches the wall, causing annihilation. 

https://home.cern/news/news/experiments/base-experiment-takes-big-step-towards-portable-antimatter

https://scitechdaily.com/electrons-catapult-across-solar-materials-near-natures-speed-limit/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GBU-57A/B_MOP

Drones, attacks against ABM radars, and a lack of cybersecurity are proving global vulnerabilities.

(TWZ.com)

There are two major global threats. The first one. It is cybersecurity. If hackers can remove things like IFF recognition codes from any jet fighter. Or any air defense installation. That can cause terrible mistakes. The Kuwaitian F/A-18 shot down three U.S. F-15s, and that raises many questions.  If aircraft fly across multinational airspaces, every single airplane must have. The right IFF (Identification Friend or Foe) codes in its systems. If some allied or neutral nation’s fighters or air defense have wrong ID marks, that can cause a situation where those friendly aircraft shoot their own planes. 

This means that there is a possibility that some hackers have changed or removed those IFF keys from the allied aircraft. This means that the hackers can use data viruses. They can cause a situation where friendly fire kills their own forces. This kind of threat can make it impossible to launch even nuclear missiles if the launch codes are removed. This means that. The cyberattack can have an effect. Into the physical world. The cyber attack can make it possible to change. The information. Into fake information that turns news into fake news. Or, it can make. The friendly aircraft to shoot friendly aircraft. 

The ABM radar: (TWZ.com)

(TWZ.com)

Did somebody hack the Kuwaiti F/A-18 fighter’s computer? If IFF codes are removed, the F/A-18 thinks that all incoming aircraft are hostile. 

1: Aerodynamic cover; 2: Air-filled cavity; 3: Conical liner (Often copper); 4: Detonator; 5: Explosive; 6: Piezo-electric trigger (Wikipedia, High-explosive anti-tank)

Above: HEAT (High-explosive anti-tank) ammunition. 

The expensive ABM radars are the main target for Iranian strikes. 

They turn into the primary targets for low-cost drones and missiles. The missile or drone that hits the ABM radar can simply follow the radio signals that those systems send. So, the missile or drone can be the enlarged version of the AGM-88 HARM. The same system that guides. The anti-radiation missiles are aimed at their targets. They can be installed in the drones. The enemy can send thousands of drones and missiles against those radars. And the problem with things like Shahed- and LUCAS drones is that those systems can carry HEAT(high-explosive anti-tank), or thermobaric-HEAT explosives. In those cases. The drone can cause damage to large and well-protected targets. In HEAT ammunition. There is a small explosive behind the chamber. When that explosive detonates. It pushes air forward, turning the metal shell into. The thing called aimed explosive effect. 

Thermobaric-HEAT. An HEAT warhead. That chamber is filled with hydrocarbons or water. Thicker material turns the aimed explosion jet more effective. Those systems can damage even strong bunkers. A direct hit. A radar transmitter can destroy those radars.  A regular thermobaric explosion has a large kill radius. Those explosives can destroy radars and radio masts. In that case, the drone or missile must not give. A direct hit to the radio antenna. The problem with Shahed-type drones is that they can be hidden in things like lorries, and then launch from very close distances to radars. Even a fishing boat can transport the attack drones into striking distance. And those drones can make holes in the submarine hulls. 

Or larger cruise missiles can carry smaller cruise missiles below them. This means that. A bigger cruise missile. Like FP-5 Flamingo. Can carry Storm Shadow or Taurus missiles. This means that unmanned drones can carry cruise missiles and launch them from a long distance from their users. 

The Shahed-. And it’s U.S. copy, The LUCAS drones showing their capacity. Those drones can be used with manned aircraft. The aircraft can drop the drone into the target area. Those cheap and easy-to-produce drones force the enemy to shoot. If enough drones are used, the anti-aircraft missile stockpiles turn empty. The success of those drones opens the path to the more advanced systems. There is a possibility. To install booster rockets on Storm Shadow and Taurus missiles. Those things can give the ground and small-ship launch capacity for those cruise missiles. There is also a possibility of installing Taurus or Storm Shadow-type cruise missiles with the Flamingo cruise missiles. This means that the Flamingo can get those missile guidance systems. Or the bigger cruise missile. It can carry those smaller cruise missiles. And that gives the larger Flamingo-missile the ultimate range. 

https://www.twz.com/air/kuwaiti-f-a-18s-triple-friendly-fire-shootdown-gets-stranger-by-the-day

https://www.twz.com/news-features/iranian-attacks-on-critical-missile-defense-radars-are-a-wake-up-call

https://www.twz.com/news-features/lucas-kamikaze-drones-lauded-as-indispensable-by-u-s-admiral-in-charge-of-iran-war

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-88_HARM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FP-5_Flamingo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-explosive_anti-tank

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_Shadow 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taurus_KEPD_350

The new quantum devices offer more secure communication.

"Quantum computers typically require extreme conditions, including temperatures near absolute zero, which makes them difficult and expensive to operate. Researchers at Stanford have developed a nanoscale optical device that works at room temperature, using specially structured materials to link the spins of photons and electrons. Credit: Stock" (ScitechDaily, Room-Temperature Quantum Device Could Transform Future Communications)

Information plays a critical role in modern society. And this is why securing information is urgent. Without trusted and secure information. It’s impossible to share and receive trusted information. If someone can hack  mission-critical systems, it can cause complete chaos. Can you imagine a scenario where someone hacks the traffic lights? In the city? The hacker simply turns all traffic lights green. That causes complete chaos. Or what if somebody raises the lift bridge up? 

That is one of the things that can cause bad things. Because that blocks roads from ambulances and other emergency vehicles. And in a critical moment. Those kinds of roadblocks. They can be dangerous. Things like disinformation. Often delivered on the net. Disinformation is one of the reasons why we also need physical data security. We can, of course, transport information on USB sticks. But there is always a possibility. 

That somebody drops that stick from their pocket. The USB sticks are used to transport the decryption keys. The system that decrypts codes requires the right code key. That. It can calculate. Calculations. The encryption process is used backwards. The encryption system uses long binary numbers to encode data. So, the decryption system requires those binary numbers.

Another big problem is that the USB sticks are slow systems. Of course, we could encrypt data. Into those sticks in physical form. If we have the right systems, we could share every single file into the four parts. And store those parts in four different memory sticks. This means we can send those memory sticks with four couriers. The decryption process requires that the user have all four memory sticks. And then the decryption requires that those sticks be in the right order. 

Quantum encryption means. The system can send information using many physical routes. This means that the system can send data using different data transportation lines. Or it can simply use different frequencies. 

The problem with encryption and decryption is that without those things. The GSM telephones and the entire internet. They will not work. The encryption. It makes it possible. For multiple systems to communicate on the same frequency. Every data package. That travel in the net has an identifier in front of it. Before data transmission starts, the devices change those identifiers or keys. If those identifiers are wrong, the system denies those data packages. 

If that process does not work. The thing that the user hears is the white noise. The situation turns into a case. Lots of people. Talk with each other in a small space. Suddenly, the case happens. That people start to yell at each other. The ability to separate words becomes impossible. 

https://scitechdaily.com/room-temperature-quantum-device-could-transform-future-communications/

Are you ready for quantum apocalypse?

Every single encryption made by traditional binary computers is vulnerable to quantum computers. There are service providers who promise end-to-end encryption. That should resist quantum computer-based attacks.  But are those encryption systems really tested against quantum computer-based attacks? It is always possible to create systems that use extremely complex math for encryption. But things like artificial intelligence can read words.  

Straight from the image that the camera transmits from a keyboard. If those keyboards are visible to some hacked cameras. The AI follows. On. How a person moves fingers on the keyboard. And reads words from those films. This means that if we are not prepared for AI. That is dangerous.  Second, that things like a note. Is visible. It is enough for AI that it can read words written to it. 

The attacking system would, anyway, be quantum computer-morphing neural network-based systems. The quantum computer will generate binary numbers for the morphing neural network. 

Which makes. Attacks against systems that use traditional Riemann conjecture-based encryption algorithms. Still yet. A quantum computer cannot. Run things like AI-based software. The complicated software. It runs. On a group of traditional binary computer networks. Which we call a morphing neural network. In that system, the group of computers runs the programs and makes those attacks simultaneously. The system changes the attacking computer. 

All the time. Which. Makes it hard to deny the IP address of the attacking system. The system can share binary numbers between those computers. And that makes this kind of system dangerous. The morphing neural network can run data like a single computer. Or. It can share different missions to separate computers, which means the morphing neural network can operate. With multiple problems. At the same time. The problem with traditional encryption collapse is that. It can endanger things. Like crypto- and digicurrencies security.  

This means that. Somebody. Could create fake crypto- and digital currencies. Digital currency means a national currency that is shared in digital form. If digital form currency can be faked, that can cause the collapse of the economy. The encryption is also required in computer operating systems and program updates. If somebody can slip malicious software. In the computer update flow, this can cause very big problems. The fake update. It can make it possible to switch off computers. And that can have a destructive effect. In cybersecurity. 

Cyber is the new dimension in intelligence and military operations. Things like malware, computer viruses, and spyware are tools that can endanger many things.  In an assassination. Of the Iranian leader Khamenei, the key role was in the traffic surveillance cameras. Those cameras offered real-time information about Khamenei and his security council’s movements. This means that even innocent-looking systems. Like. Surveillance cameras in the next building can open a window for hackers and other attackers. The AI can sort very large data masses. 

And it can find things. Like reflections from glasses. There is a computer screen visible. The system. It can render the image so clear that the passwords are visible. The AI agents can search things like passwords on cellphone screens. They can recognize. If somebody visits. On homepages. That requires strong identification. The AI can see when a person fills the passphrase box. And then it can give access to the system. The AI is the next-generation threat. Maybe the hackers already have AI assistants. That can detect things like logging in to the protected homepages. The system can see things like passwords from the computer screen. Or they can watch. The way a person moves their hands on keyboards. 

https://www.fairedih.fi/en/2025/10/30/the-encryption-endgame-why-the-world-faces-a-quantum-reckoning/#:~:text=When%20quantum%20computers%20break%20current%20encryption%20%E2%80%94%20and,become%20obsolete.%20This%20threat%20has%20already%20spurred%20action.

What if we move? All our work to AI?

We can compare the threat that AI poses to society to the influence of slavery on the Roman Empire. Sometimes people say that slavery destroyed Roman civilization. When the Romans transferred all duties and work to slaves, they became weak and lazy. That caused a situation where, in the case. There, Rome was under threat; there were no people. With the ability to fight against the threat that came in the form of Attila. When Attila and his Huns robbed. 

The city of Rome, all glory was gone. People noticed that Rome was the only city on the map. And that caused loss of respect. The reason. The reason the Roman Empire lost was that. It didn’t create anything new. It always used the same tactics. That caused the situation. The enemies of Rome knew what the Romans would do next. And they knew how to react to that thing. In the same way. If we give all the work. Into the hands of robots. And learn to use only the answers that the AI gives. We are going into the same position. Where the Romans went when they turned lazy. We will face a situation where nobody does anything. People just give orders to the AI. And that thing makes everything for humans.

What is gained in quantity is lost in accuracy. Things like dictionary books. They involve lots of topics. But information about each topic is limited.  When we want deep knowledge about things like how to make a computer program, we need a more precise dictionary. We need a data source about programming, which means the source involves information about fewer topics, but it involves information on how to create something. 

There are two ways. To measure productivity. 

1) We can simply calculate the number of products. That is a quantitative way to determine effectiveness. This is the simplest way to determine effectiveness. We can calculate how many reports the worker. Or some other actor makes during the working day. This is the easiest way to determine effectiveness. The number of reports. It is a good way to measure. The effectiveness of a worker. But. Those reports can only be scratching the surface. They might be like some encyclopedia. There is a lot of information. Or lots of topics. But there are a few details about those things. We couldn’t make things. Like computer programs. Or building houses if we only have common encyclopedias. We need deeper knowledge. About things that we should make when we want to make those things. The encyclopedia involves. A lot of surface data. About many things. 

2) We can see the quality of the product. This means a qualitative way to determine effectiveness. Deep information and deep knowledge are the qualitative ways to determine effectiveness. But then. We face another problem. How to determine deep knowledge? How can we say? Does that report involve deep knowledge? We can determine. The qualitative way to determine effectiveness. In programming. As the number of lines that pass the tests. But in things like regular reports or novels, we must ask, what makes some texts more qualitative than others? Is it that somebody clicks the link? 

The problem is that the AI recycles information. It will not make anything new. The final part of the Roman decay was a situation. Where Romans who loved Greece and philosophy started to read only texts written by the Greek philosophers. They didn’t even try to create their own texts. Except for some different people, like Marcus Aurelius. Bu. If we deliver all our work to the AI. We are choosing a path that is not good. In that case. People just lie. At home. Maybe that thing seems easy. But what if we turn our lives. Too easy? What if we lose our skills to read and write? We can simply give orders to AI, and it generates texts for us. Maybe. Most of those texts please readers. But do they improve our skills? To write and produce texts? When we talk about things. 

Like giving an ability to think to the AI. We always forget a couple of things. First thing is that. The AI is a good tool. To follow things. Like stock marketing or a certain vehicle in traffic. The AI is the only thing that can sort and process large data masses. And then if we follow the orders that the AI gives. We deliver our decision to AI. That brings new and complicated questions. The complicated question is, what if we don’t follow the orders that AI gives? If we want to sort manually. 

The same data mass that an AI agent sorts in minutes. We would spend years in that process. We can make AI to create texts. And that makes us effective. But. There is a price. For that effective work. We give orders to AI that creates lots of documents. But that doesn’t mean that we must read a single one of them. We can say that the situation is similar if we ask lots of questions. And then nobody answers.  

Pericles, Socrates, and artificial intelligence.

Above:  Pericles, Socrates, and artificial intelligence. 

When we think that people outsource thinking to AI, we can ask whether those people outsource that ability to some outside thing anyway? Are thoughts already outsourced? The AI as a replacer. The human thinker. It is the end of the long journey. In ancient Greece, regular people outsourced thinking to philosophers. The problem with philosophers is that if something went wrong, people blamed them. That brought a new way to make philosophy. 

That thing is called sophism. Sophism is one of the most harmful things to philosophy. The idea of sophism is to please the majority. The reason for the death of Socrates was that the sophists asked why people who have wealth should abstain from using their wealth. The key element in Socratic philosophy is moderation in everything. People. Who received the sentence of death? Understood that they should share their wealth or give it away for free. 

So if something didn’t please people, the reason for that was in the philosopher. Not a person who misunderstood those orders. Those orders or advice were somehow complicated. After. The time of ancient Greece. People outsourced their ability to think to the universities. Regular people had time to sit in beer houses and leave dark things to people who had time to think about things like falling meteorites. Why should people read things like complex mathematics if they have good salaries anyway? And if something new comes to the workplace, the leader of the gang. Can. Just refuse to use that thing. 

When we think that people outsource their thoughts to AI, we mean. A situation. That person. Will just. Give the AI-generated answer forward. We can ask. Would that person read those answers anyway?  Even if. They are written. By. A real human. Politicians like Pericles. Used sophist philosophers to make text that pleased people. The people whom Pericles must please were people who made decisions in Athens. So, the sophists should only please people who have power. So, if we want to think like Pericles, we should please people who own companies. Those people make decisions. So they are people whom we should please. 

If we want. To succeed as a company leader. We must think like a banker. We must maximize incoming money flow. And minimize outgoing money flow. If we want to succeed as politicians, we must think like Pericles. We must please people. Or most people must like us. That is the conflict. And the third thing. It is. Interest of the state. The interest of the state means. The state must somehow protect its citizens. And that triangle is sometimes very hard to fit as an entirety. 

We can see artificial intelligence as an opportunity. But then. We must determine the meaning of the word: “opportunity”. The opportunity can mean that artificial intelligence makes work easier, and leaves more time for social life. But we can determine the opportunity another way. We can determine that artificial intelligence gives opportunities to fire workers. So, in the last case, we can see that. Artificial intelligence is the tool that allows one to earn more money. The AI allows workers. 

To make their work faster. And that is one of the things that requires new ways to think. In traditional capitalism, faster work means that a person can do more work. And this is one of the things that we can understand when we develop AI. The main problem with AI development is that. Money controls those corporations. We say that. The workers lose their productivity. If. They work with AI agents. But then again. We must determine productivity. If. We calculate. The productivity. As a form. Of a series of physical items. 

We can calculate: how many things the worker makes. Or, if the worker works with immaterial products. Like code for the computer program, we can calculate how many acceptable code lines the worker does per day. Or maybe. We should calculate productivity. As production cycles. Each. Of the products. What a person produces is a cycle. That includes the beginning. And the end of the work. So, we can calculate. How many cycles does a worker do during the day? Then we can set the goal for that person. 

Maybe. Our worker should make five cycles each day. So, what if the worker completes those five products or production cycles in six hours? That means the worker has two hours of free time in the workplace. In traditional capitalism. That free time is the time. That is out of the time. That. The corporation pays for. So. The leaders might see that time as free time. The thing is that. The person reaches the production goal, but in a shorter time. And that means the production goal is reached, but the entire worktime is not filled. 

We can also determine. The term “productivity”. As the income or profit. That the company brings to its owners. And if. We think that way, we can search the department. There are four people with two free hours in a working day. And then we can fire three of those workers. That is allowed in working life. 

Another thing is that the AI causes corrosion in thinking. The corrosion means that when people use AI, they leave the answer that AI gave. Without. Even looking at it. That is one of the things that causes discussions. When we outsource our work to machines, that should make life easier. But, machines bring unemployment. We can outsource thinking to AI. And that has a corrosive effect on humanity. When we think about free time, we should also ask what the person does during their free time.  

People can go out. Or. They can go to the library. Read books. They can read books. From. The net. Or listen to recorded books. They can use “text-to-speech” applications to transform any text into speech. And listen to those things while they go jogging or to the gym. Or they can sit in social groups. And think about things. Like. How corrosive the AI can be. In that ideal model, people use their free time for self-education, advancing their ideas. And improve their skills. 

But otherwise, people can go to a bar, sit there, and drink beer. They can outsource everything to AI. And university lecturers or some other thinkers. Because those people will not get money for their studies, they don’t study. Have those people ever? Open a single book in their lives? That is one other way to think about things. 

There is. A lot of unknown things in unmanned systems

There is a lot. That is not told about the Chinese miniature shuttle. The miniature shuttles. Like X-37B and its Chinese companion. Operating in top-secret missions. Maybe. There are also stealth versions of those space shuttles. 

Things like radar satellites and AWACS platforms play a vital role in the military world. This means that those platforms are also prime targets for the anti-AWACS and anti-satellite systems. The same systems. That. Used against radars. It can be used against communication and radar satellites. Those missiles can also attack orbital data centers or computer satellite swarms. The growing fleet of reconnaissance satellites with real-time abilities requires the ability to attack. Against. Those satellites. 

These transmit real-time information about the opponent’s movement. So it’s vital to shut down those satellites. The anti-satellite systems. (ASAT). They can also be used to attack killer satellites. The problem with the systems is that they must separate friendly satellites. From the hostile, or enemy, satellites. Those ASAT systems can be missiles or space shuttles. 

The missile can be launched. From high-flying aircraft. Or, drones.  Those drones can be nuclear-powered versions of the MQ-9 Reaper. 

Or the orbital platforms. The miniature shuttles. They can use various systems. Like lasers. Machine guns and centrifugal guns. Or rockets to destroy those targets. 

The fact is that those miniature shuttles. They can act in various missions. Like zero-gravity orbital satellites. They can act in reconnaissance duties. Or they can operate in anti-satellite duties. Or maybe they also operate as dangerous hypersonic kamikaze drones. Those shuttles can also act as launching platforms for small air combat drones. 

MQ-9 Reaper with Storm Shadow missiles. 

Those systems can also carry things like rods of god-type kinetic weapons. It’s possible to drop normal guided bombs from the orbiter. If the small-size shuttle operates as a kamikaze drone, that would be the next step for the FOBS (Fractional Orbital Bombardment System). Those shuttles can hang in orbital trajectory and then dive to their target. 

The shuttle can carry those weapons in its cargo bay. Or it can carry an internally detonated hydrogen bomb. 

The thing. What is important is what is in the cargo bays. The cargo bay or modular cargo system involves multiple possibilities. Like. Act as a home for machine guns that those shuttles can use against satellites. Those systems can be centrifugal cannons that shoot metal balls against targeted satellites. 

Another thing that is very little known is the high-flying drones. It is quite easy to transform the MQ-9 Reaper-type drone into a nuclear-powered drone. The system requires only the Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (RTG) as the power source for the propeller-engine drone. The missions of those high-flying nuclear-powered drones can be the same as those of normal drones. But their operational times are longer. The Reaper-type drones can carry cruise missiles. And they can also act as platforms for ASAT weapons. 

The air-launched air combat drones can also be systems that those drones can operate. The same drones can also be dropped from the orbital platforms, like miniature shuttles. Those air-combat drones can attack. Against. Atmospheric aircraft. This makes those systems very dangerous. 

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