Democracizing Power

Vegas Golden Knights defeated the Colorado Avalanche 4-2 in Game 1 of the Western Conference Final at Ball Arena on Wednesday.

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A fossil discovery in Ethiopia shows that early Homo and a previously unknown Australopithecus species lived together around 2.6 to 2.8 million years ago.

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Vegas Golden Knights defeated the Colorado Avalanche 4-2 in Game 1 of the Western Conference Final at Ball Arena on Wednesday.

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Democracizing Power

In the short years of the Ukrainian War, there have been remarkable advances in accurate, cheap military murder and disruptions.  We are now blessed with affordable leverage in warfare, as we have seen in the advances of terrorism in the streets.

Here is one such change, reported by Perera.

"A Chinese AI startup called MizarVision is publishing high-resolution satellite imagery of every US military base, every carrier strike group, every F-22 deployment, every THAAD battery, and every Patriot missile position in the Middle East. Labelled. Geolocated. AI-annotated. Updated in near-realtime. Shared by PLA-linked accounts and Chinese state media to an audience of billions.

The Pentagon has downplayed the releases as “open-source.” This framing misses the point entirely. The value of MizarVision’s output is not the raw satellite image. Any government can purchase commercial satellite passes. The value is the AI processing layer that converts terabytes of imagery into labelled, searchable, cross-referenced intelligence products at a speed and scale that previously required the resources of a national intelligence agency. MizarVision is democratising military surveillance and publishing the output on social media, where Iran’s 31 autonomous IRGC provincial commands can access it from a mobile phone.

The next war will not begin with a missile launch. It will begin with an AI model labelling every target from orbit."

This is a rise in the influence of the individual that no democracy ever dreamed of. Power can increasingly be opposed affordably by the narrow and precise. 

Governments will soon argue that any deviation from common dogma carries risk.