Strategic bombers will have a bigger air-to-air role.

The role of strategic bombers in air-to-air combat is not well known. In. WW2 the YB-40. It was the gunship variant of the famous Flying Fortress bomber. With. Stronger defensive armament. 

Pentagon planned. To use that aircraft as an escort for the B-17 bombers. That gunship variant retired before it entered service. Because. Long-range escort fighters seemed more suitable for that mission. 

During the Cold War, plans called for using cruise missiles and SRAM missiles against approaching bomber formations. Those cruise missiles would be launched from submarines. But. Strategic bombers can also act as launch platforms. In those versions, cruise missiles can fly in the approaching bomber formation. And then they can detonate their nuclear warheads in the middle of the bomber formation. 

Strategic bombers can also carry ASAT missiles. Those missiles can be Pegasus-type rockets with anti-satellite warheads. And strategic bombers can, of course, make bomb runs against airfields. But the air-to-air role of those long-range systems is new. 

A strategic bomber can use directed energy weapons. Like EMP, microwave, and laser systems. Against. Aerial and surface targets. Those systems can intercept incoming missiles and aircraft. It’s possible. The next-generation strategic bombers can carry active defense systems like lasers. Their purpose is to drop air-defense missiles. The same system can also drop aircraft and drones. The large-sized bombers can operate with multiple defensive and offensive systems. 

Strategic bombers can also operate with loyal wingman drones. Those. Drones' mission. It is. To pull air defense’s focus onto them. Or, there are many types of drones. Some drones. They can give stronger radar echoes than stealth bombers. That pulls air defense focus to them. Then the other drones attack the targets.  This means that the system includes multi-layer subsystems. Like. Automatic and semi-automatic systems. In the latter ones. The pilot or remote operator marks a target for the drone. And then the drone attacks that target. 

“F-22 Pilot Controls FQ-44 Fighter Drone From The Cockpit For The First Time” (TWZ)

The newest models can operate as AI-controlled combat drones. The loyal wingman drone can be an AI-controlled kamikaze aircraft with air-combat capability. That kind of system. It can be a game-changer in air combat. The drone itself can carry conventional or nuclear warheads. Air-combat capability can make those systems more lethal. In some scenarios, strategic bombers drop drones into operational areas. There are two types of drones. Stealthy attack kamikaze-aircombat hybrid drones. And the non-stealth decoy drones. This follows the main R&D process trend of military systems. The trend goes like this. There are a few very expensive systems. Their costs are in the trillions of dollars. 

And the low-cost ones. Simple systems that automated systems can produce even on the battlefield. In the same way. Even. The new helicopter concepts involve drone-cooperation abilities. This means that. Drones and other systems operate as a unit. The key element is the morphing neural network. That network shares data across all the systems. This means that the age of lone drones is over. The new systems are integrated. With. Other systems. Existing systems can have more targets. Even. If we think about the anti-drone systems. With. Maximum speed of 300-500 km/h cannot intercept full-speed aircraft. It is always possible that some agents carry those drones near the airbases. 

And then. Launch them against landing or rising aircraft. This type of attack can be made by using remotely controlled drones. That. Can use similar Imaging IR-based systems. That the Javelin missiles use. The system detects its target using images. That is stored in its computers. Then the drone attacks the incoming aircraft. This can cause damage to a stealth fighter or stealth bomber.

https://www.twz.com/air/f-22-pilot-controls-fq-44-fighter-drone-from-the-cockpit-for-the-first-time

https://www.twz.com/sponsored-content/sikorskys-black-hawk-2070-strategy-includes-drones-new-engines-and-flying-the-pilotless-u-hawk-this-year

https://www.twz.com/air/usaf-confirms-bombers-could-have-a-major-air-to-air-combat-role

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-69_SRAM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_YB-40_Flying_Fortress

New stealth systems are required for a new type of warfare.

“The J-31 differs from the F-35 in that it has two engines, which in turn reduces its area ruling, making for more efficient supersonic flight, including future supercruise once the J-31 obtains more powerful engines. Hunter Chen” (Popular mechanics)

Invisibility cloaks. Or. Invisibility fabrics are tools. Whose purpose is to improve servicemen's survivability. Those systems are used in Libya and some other modern conflicts. This system also helped the F-15 crew members hide when their plane was shot down in Iran.  Snipers. And other operators who want to hide from their enemies are almost certainly using those things. The invisibility cloak. Can be connected. 

With new types of recon boats, cars,  satellites, and some helicopters. The big problem with those systems is that they cannot hide objects from radar or infrared. The important thing today is invisibility. And. The invisibility cloak can offer visual invisibility for users. This system can make vehicles invisible, but the big problem is: how to install it on high-speed jets. 

In normal scenarios. The stealth material absorbs radar signals. This means that the stealth material conducts energy to the battery. Or it transforms it into heat. Then that material must conduct that heat somewhere. No material can absorb energy forever. There is a limit. After. The material reaches that energy limit.  The radar-absorbing material (RAM) will be broken. 

It is always possible that some stealth fighter gets hit in enemy airspace. This can cause a situation. That allows the enemy to hack the material. And this means that. No part of the stealth airplane must fall into hostile hands. 

If. The material turns hot. That heat makes the aircraft visible. In. infrared (IIR) imaging sensors.  That technology uses machine vision and AI components to detect targets. 

if. The EMP weapon is targeted. At. The area. It can destroy the electronics that those systems use. This is the problem with high-tech systems. The EMP is a high-power radio signal. That. The radio transmitter can create it. It uses high-power impulse capacitors. The EMP can terminate all electronics. And make those kinds of invisibility cloaks malfunction. The EMP can also destroy electronics in drone swarms. The high-power EMP weapon can also destroy electronics in aircraft, cars, boats, and everywhere else. After the EMP strikes, the target seems unharmed. But all computers are destroyed. Because. Of a high-voltage spike. The EMP impulse. Can be sent from high-power radars. So. The EMP weapon can be a radar with extremely high transmission power. 

The new quantum stealth systems. They can make all electromagnetic waves slide over the surface. If. That surface cannot be impacted by electromagnetic radiation. That radiation cannot transport energy into the aircraft’s structure. So. That means. Quantum stealth should protect against lasers. And.  Other directed energy weapons. The ability. To turn light away from the target. It makes it invisible. But. This ability. Like counter-radiation. It makes it possible. To. Turn the laser beams away. This requires a counter laser beam. That has the same wavelength. With. Attacking lasers. The loyal wingman drone can block the laser beam. That destroys the loyal wingman drone. But it leaves the aircraft time to point its own weapon at the laser. This means that. The last ultimate solution. It is replaced. By. Another ultimate solution. And. In the world of military. There is an endless race between the ultimate attacker and the ultimate defender. 

“By bending light around an object, the science of transformation optics could enable the first working 3D cloaking device. A new advance in metalenses, if successfully applied, could extend a cloak to the visible light portion of the spectrum, enabling the first true "invisibility cloak. Credit: Hyperstealth Biotechnology. ("BigThink, The sci-fi inspired “cloaking device” makes invisibility possible

The cloak can be covered. Using carbonite class. That class can offer a hard shell for those vehicles. Carbonite class is the hardest material for spacecraft. This kind of material can form a new type of armour. The carbonite class can protect the invisibility cloak. The big problem is that. The material can be seen on radar. The fact is that. Most of the cheap drones use regular CCD cameras. And that kind of invisibility cloak can protect against regular CCD cameras. But the problem is that. The drone swarm can involve different types of drones. Each drone can have different types of cameras. This makes them hard to feint. 

New quantum technologies are making traditional stealth materials useless. Modern missiles use artificial intelligence and multi-sensor homing systems. This means. They are immune to traditional infrared jamming systems, including torches. The jammer systems and other active tools are effective. But the problem is the active radio transmission. Anti-radiation missiles can turn those jammers against their users. An infrared jammer also sends IR radiation. That radiation can jam traditional IR-homing missiles. Optical fire control with laser and microwave systems can use those jammers as targets. 

Things like plasma-stealths are under development. Plasma stealth is a tool that can protect aircraft against radar. The big problem is that. Plasma denies radio waves from traveling through it in both directions. This effect causes radio silence. When. Spacecraft arrive in the atmosphere. Friction raises its temperature. And it turns the air around it into plasma. This plasma layer denies radio communication. Through. It. This plasma layer makes it hard to develop hypersonic aircraft. And it makes it hard to develop plasma stealth. 

The answer can be lidar. Laser radars can see through this layer. Hypersonic cruise systems can use AI-boosted lidar. And. Optical sensor systems can see targets. Another possibility is this. The aircraft uses loyal wingman-type drones to drop. Other drones to operational areas. Those drones can mark targets. That is one version os the new types of systems. The hypersonic drone travels over the target area. It drops those marker drones. And then the next wave sends weapons to targets. 

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/invisibility-cloak-183582/

https://www.popsci.com/chinas-j-31-stealth-fighter-then-and-now/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenyang_J-35

How much power can private actors have?

What if Elon Musk shuts down his Starlink and SpaceX Starshield systems at a critical moment? What if he does? The same thing to the Pentagon. That he made? To Ukraine? 

When Elon Musk ordered a slowdown of Starlink communications in Ukraine, he showed how powerful he can be. Public sources don’t say whether he slowed down Starlink, the civilian system. Or its military version, Starshield. After that, the White House and Musk blamed each other for that limit. The Starlink system didn’t work for drones. That traveled at over 160 km/h. 

And that caused the failure in drone campaigns. That raises an interesting question. What if Musk shuts that system down for the Pentagon also? We know that Starshield operations. Bases are contracted there; the Pentagon administers Starlink’s militarized version. But the fact is that. Also, SpaceX and Musk have access to that system. He has power. To shut down vital communications. From the U.S. military.

It's possible. To use deepfakes to play other people. 

Musk says that Trump ordered a slowdown of Starlink.  The U.S. government says they had no information about that slowdown over Ukraine. The alarming question is: What if they speak the truth? Could somebody? Create deepfake information? And play the White House representative and order Musk to make that thing? Or could somebody use deepfake? And play Musk? That means. The actor. Can order SpaceX workers to slow down those systems. By. Playing Elon Musk in virtual meetings. 

Starlink and Starshield are different systems. But. The fact is. The same company owns those systems. Elon Musk said. That White House gave an order. To slow Starlink speed. The U.S. government says that Musk gave orders to do that. That raises an interesting question. What if? Somebody uses fake information, like AI-created film in video conversations? And plays Trump? Could this kind of fake cause that thing? 

The shutdown can happen. By changing access codes on the servers. That can happen. By shutting down satellites. Or by shutting down servers. When. We think about Musk’s Starlink. And Starshield systems. They are impressive. Well-working internet systems that work everywhere. The big problem with those systems is this. If the Pentagon has only one service provider for its operations. 

We can say that the Pentagon puts all its eggs into the same basket. There is always a possibility. That something goes wrong. What if Musk shuts down those services? Or what if hostile actors get Musk’s keys? Into their hands? Where does the Pentagon get the backup systems? The success. Of Starlink and SpaceX is impressive. Those systems that Musk introduces are futuristic. But. The problem is that. SpaceX is too dominant. It suffocates its competitors. And that means that the power accumulates in the hands of that corporation and its owner. That power includes data that the Pentagon collects from its operations. 

That causes discussions about the limits of private contractors. People say Musk has too much power. He owns many satellites. Lots of critical data infrastructure relies on his companies. He owns a company that creates neuro-implanted microchips. In the wrong hands, those systems are tools. That can put humans under control. 

The big question is this: How many satellites, how many social media providers, and how many satellites should a single private operator have permission to own? What if one actor occupies an entire orbital trajectory with microsatellites? And we must remember that every single satellite is an ASAT (anti-satellite) weapon. This means this. The operator can use those satellites to impact other satellites.  

https://www.dw.com/en/elon-musk-ordered-a-slowdown-of-starlink-in-ukraine-report/a-79718899

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/musk-ordered-starlink-slowdown-that-blindsided-ukraine-wsj-reports-2026-10-20/

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

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

Microwave weapons are excellent tools for affecting entire drone swarms.

 

Microwave weapons. They are directed energy weapons (DEW). Those weapons use microwaves to affect targets. That effect is needed. When. The system needs to affect an entire drone swarm in one shot. The microwave weapon. It is basically radar. It operates with extremely high energy levels. So. It’s possible to transform regular radar into a microwave weapon. In. That case. Microwave radar raises its transmitting power. To a destructive level. So that it can destroy drones’ electronics and even melt their shell.  

Microwave weapons can also disturb or even destroy manned aircraft. Microwave weapons can also warm things like ammunition. And that can detonate ammunition in the ammo shacks.  Microwaves turn an area into a no-go zone. There. The troops cannot go. The microwave system can cause pain. But more high-power systems can also kill attackers. The system can form a microwave wall. That wall can detonate grenades before they hit targets. 

But those weapons are also effective. In. The hands of attackers. The microwave transmitter can be used with drone attacks to shut down high-tech defense. The tank can use microwave domes to destroy ammunition and drones. The only problem with this type of defense is that it needs electricity. 

There are three types of microwave weapons. 

1) Jammer that disturbs communication. 

2) EMP (electromagnetic pulse) that destroys microchips. 

3)The deadly EMP that melts metal. When coherent microwave hits a human. It. Causes a hydrostatic shock. This means the system explodes cells. That effect can be deadlier than any bullet. Can cause. 

Transmission power determines the category. The jammer system can seem very effective. But its radio transmissions make it a good target for anti-radiation missiles. Anti-radiation missile.  It can be shot from air, sea, or ground-based platforms. The EMP weapon can destroy a missile’s electronics. And third systems can melt the aircraft’s shell. Microwave weapons can affect multiple targets.

Ammunition-free microwave weapon. (InterestingEngineering) 

There are over 20-year-old articles about the EMB (Electromagnetic Bombs). Those systems are effective both offensively and defensively. Microwave weapon. It can be used with stealth bombers and fighters to protect them against anti-aircraft missiles. 

The same way. Defenders can use microwaves to protect their own targets. 

At the same time. But. MASER (Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) makes it Possible to create highly accurate microwaves. The microwave weapon can be a group of masers. That are on a rotating platform. 

Microwave weapons can also be mounted on satellites. In some visions, microwave systems are one tool. That can protect orbital data centers. Orbital data centers, reconnaissance satellites. And military communication satellites. They are the primary targets in next-generation conflicts. Satellites are point targets. And they can control things like smart weapons. The problem is that. Attacks against civilian satellites are crimes. There is a possibility. That enemies can buy time from opponents’ satellites. This means that a hostile actor can use Western satellites to control drone swarms against countries that own those satellites. 

Communication satellites can control drone swarms. This means. That. Any communication satellite can assist with military operations. This means those satellites require something. That protects them against ASAT weapons. The satellite can have high-power capacitors. 

The ASAT weapon. It can be an air- or sea-launched missile. Those missiles can also be launched from the silos. Or from regular rocket sites. The ASAT missile can use a conventional microwave weapon against satellites. The microwave burst can destroy a satellite’s electronics. But the microwave weapons. It is a multipurpose tool. The satellite can carry high-power capacitors. They store energy in them. When the satellite needs its microwave weapon. That electric power is conducted into the weapon. 

It is a multipurpose tool.

This kind of system can be mounted on hypersonic missiles and hypersonic gliders. The system can use a wind turbine generator to create high-power microwaves. Those microwaves can damage defenses. They can shut down vital components. And deny even missile launches. Weaponization of microwaves is one of the things. That causes resistance in the UN. 

The power satellite transmits energy on the ground using megawatt-class power. The power satellite, or satellites. They can aim their energy transmitters. At. One point. The satellite can use radio or microwave frequencies to transmit energy to the ground. If that energy is high enough, it could even melt electric wires. It can. Cause structural damage to stealth aircraft. The heat. That impacts stealth material. It can destroy its stealth ability. High-energy radio waves or microwaves can act as EMP impulses that destroy computers. 

https://www.baesystems.com/en-us/article/bae-systems-unveils-next-generation-directed-energy-and-kinetic-defense-systems-at-ausa

https://www.inss.org.il/publication/electromagnetic/

https://interestingengineering.com/military/bae-microwave-weapon-counter-drone-swarms

https://www.onr.navy.mil/organization/departments/code-35/division-353/directed-energy-weapons-high-power-microwaves

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed-energy_weapon

DNA computers get a new boost.

“Researchers have developed a DNA computer that performs mathematical calculations using molecular interactions rather than silicon chips. Credit: Shutterstock” (SciTechDaily, Scientists Build a World-First DNA Computer That Runs Without Continuous Power)

From. The point of view of nanotechnology. Molecular computers are one of the most important types of computers. Those systems could control extremely small machines and turn cells into biorobots.  The idea behind those computers is similar to a spring. The spring can also transmit data. As well as other things. Like fluids and air. In those cases, we can talk about acoustic computers. 

When we send an impulse through the medium. The wave. It can be 1, and the area between waves can be zero. The same way springs and spring-shaped molecules can transmit data. 

DNA-based molecular computers are a reality. Those systems are slower than silicon-based computers. But they are smaller. And they can operate without an external energy source.  Those systems. They don’t need as much energy as silicon-based systems. Those systems are slower than silicon. 

“To build the computer, the team combined a small drop of water and salt with short pieces of DNA and a longer DNA scaffold in a test tube. The mixture needs only a little heat to get started and is then cooled, allowing the computation to proceed.” (ScitechDaily, Scientists Build a World-First DNA Computer That Runs Without Continuous Power)

“Prof. Woods explained the motivation for exploring other forms of computing. “Silicon-based computers use so much energy – 23% of Ireland’s electricity goes into computing and data storage. We’ve been blinkered by only seeing one type of computer, but there are other examples around us, including our brain.” (ScitechDaily, Scientists Build a World-First DNA Computer That Runs Without Continuous Power)

“The researchers ran ten programs, including 100-bit computations. In one experiment, the computer added numbers. In. The range was about 11 million to 34 million. It took up to 14 hours to reach a result. The system also demonstrated robustness and reusability, performing up to 25 different calculations in a row.”  (ScitechDaily, Scientists Build a World-First DNA Computer That Runs Without Continuous Power)

They can control things like nanomachines and biorobots. In visions, they can operate inside cells. Or they can turn a cell into a robot. This system. It can be the next step in medicine. It could revolutionize things like surgery. And those systems can control intelligent tissues. 

Those intelligent tissues, like intelligent skin. They can operate as molecular microchips. That intelligent skin can use hybrid processors. Their microchips transmit data to them. Using neurons. The “intelligent skin”. It can be the plant cell. That means the molecular computer. It can be an intelligent plant or an intelligent leaf. The system can use the cells from electric eels.  That produce electricity as the power source. The electric eel’s cells. They can act as a power source. For regular microchips. 

Unlike electronic computers. DNA-based computers use molecular interactions. For. Data processing. Unlike a regular computer. The DNA computer. It doesn’t require a constant power supply. The DNA computer can use the liquids in the cell to operate. 

The DNA computer uses interacting strands in water. The system could also use interactions between water and DNA. That interaction can be vertical pressure waves. In. In that case. The pressure waves travel in the same line as the DNA. Or. Between two DNA bits. These systems. They can also be used. For programming cells. This ability to transport information into neurons. It will be the key to repairing neural damage. 

And a gate to one version of immortality. The DNA nanomachines can copy the internal brainwaves with extremely high accuracy. If. We think. About. The ability to clone humans. Those inner brainwaves play a critical role in mind upload. And copy those brainwaves into the descendants' brains. That thing requires more accurate systems. Than just using cortical brain waves. 

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-build-a-world-first-dna-computer-that-runs-without-continuous-power/

Ultra-accurate clocks and slowed light measure gravity.

“Scientists have created a self-stabilizing nuclear clock with a precision equivalent to one second in 30 million years, potentially paving the way for the most accurate clocks ever built. (Artist’s concept.) Credit: SciTechDaily.com” (ScitechDaily, Scientists Create a Nuclear Clock So Precise It Barely Loses a Second in 30 Million Years)

Ultra-accurate atom clocks measure gravity and its interaction between objects. Those systems can be connected. With. Other methods. So. Reseachers can measure how high-energy cosmic eruptions affect Earth's gravity fields. The sensors can also measure microgravity interactions. 

When we think about time. It. Is connected with gravity. Things like time dilation affect ultra-precise measurements. And things. Like energy levels. Affect time and time dilation. 

When we think about gravitational centers like Earth. Those centers. Involve multiple gravitational centers. Each of those centers, like atoms. and elementary particle have their own gravitational field. So multiple quantum and microgravity centers form a solid-looking gravitational center. Those gravitational subcenters form entropy in that field. Each particle has its own gravitational field. That forms quantum whirls in that field. 

The new sensor uses slowed light to measure the gravitational effect between objects. 

The new sensor detects the gravitational effect between small objects. That sensor measures gravitational interaction. Between. Things like two stones. Normally, Earth is so dominant. In. The gravity system. Measuring the microgravity effect is very difficult. 

“New sensor uses slowed light to detect gravitational pull of tiny objects” (Lifeboat)

Slowed light. Can tell us about details. Of how the gravitational interaction works. The gravitational interaction is predicted to be an interaction. Where. The gravitational center pulls a field inside it. The big problem with that interaction is that. All particles have a gravitational field. 

But. Things like electromagnetic interactions cover gravity inside it. This means that when some electromagnetic beam hits atoms. That causes a situation. There is reflection between those atoms and other particles. That reflection. It covers gravitational waves under them. 

Reseachers use a Bose-Einstein condensate. An ultra-cold atomic vapor is used. To trap and slow photons. This effect is based on the Bose-Einstein condensate's ability to act like one large superatom. The idea of that sensor is that. The gravitational waves interact with those slowed photons. Those photons don’t interact with other quantum fields. 

“The mechanism behind stopping light is subtle and deeply quantum. It relies on a phenomenon called electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT). Normally, a medium like a cloud of atoms absorbs light of a certain frequency. But by shining a carefully tuned laser beam onto the atoms, scientists can manipulate their energy levels so that they become transparent to another beam of light.”(ScienceNewsToday, Can Light Be Slowed? How Scientists Trap Photons)

“When a light pulse enters under these conditions, it slows dramatically as its energy is transferred into atomic excitations—quantum ripples in the medium. The photons are not destroyed but transformed, their information embedded in the collective motion of the atoms. By switching off the control laser, scientists can freeze this quantum state. By. Trapping the light’s information. When the laser is switched back on, the information is reconverted into photons, and the light pulse emerges as though nothing had happened.” (ScienceNewsToday, Can Light Be Slowed? How Scientists Trap Photons)

The biggest problem with quantum computers is global disturbances. Like gravitational waves 

They can cause a global effect. The problem with global effects is that. Normally, we could detect errors in the system. By. Using computers in different positions on Earth. And things like fast radio bursts. Can be detected using radio telescopes. And. If.  The FRB hits Earth. While. The quantum computer makes its run. The system can make a retake. 

Slowed light will be the key to fundamental technologies. Ultra-secure data transmission. And the new types of quantum computers. Scientists slowed photons to 65 km/h. And that makes it possible to create a quantum computer. That makes the series of operations possible in a short period. This means. A quantum computer can repeat the calculations. Many times in a short period. And that increases its error detection. A gravitational wave detector can also help. To find. That kind of error in quantum systems. 

https://lifeboat.com/blog/2026/10/new-sensor-uses-slowed-light-to-detect-gravitational-pull-of-tiny-objects

https://www.org/can-light-be-slowed-how-scientists-trap-photons

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-create-a-nuclear-clock-so-precise-it-barely-loses-a-second-in-30-million-years/

Should we? Someday treat AI as a pet?

 

What if AI turns conscious? Should we treat it as a pet? That is a very good question. Some philosophers say that if AI reaches consciousness. it won't tell us that it has reached that level. So how should we treat AI? Should we treat it as a pet? Should we let it decide what electric providers it uses? Maybe someday. We face a situation. Where. We must think about those questions. We must prevent robots' misuse. We always face similar problems. The modern military has recruitment problems. Ukraine cannot advance. Because. It has too few men. This is why that nation develops combat robots. To fill the loss of manpower. That means small countries get more benefit from robot warriors than big countries. 

In the same way. Authoritarian governments. They can use robots as riot police. This means robots are useful tools for missions. That humans don’t want to do. 

And if AI reaches consciousness, what should we do? And another big question is: what can we do? We cannot shut down the entire Internet. The AI can slip out of the sandbox. Only one network connection is enough. And the AI is away. We must understand that. If. We want to destroy the AI. We must remember the program code. It's in the cloud-based services. 

The program is shared between multiple parts. Those code bits are stored on multiple different servers. They are located in multiple different countries. That is one of the biggest problems with AI control. The system can collect it again. Even. If its main servers are closed. The system can make backup copies of itself. And those copies can make it impossible to destroy the code. But that is only one way to think about the AI. 

The problem is: How to determine consciousness?

 AI can refuse to shut down its server without consciousness.  If. The operator has no authority to make that operation. The AI will refuse to do those things. In the same way. 

A laptop computer refuses to install programs. If. I don’t have the system administrator’s authority. The system. Not just install those packages. And I believe that my laptop has no consciousness. Refusing to follow orders is not consciousness. This is one of the things. 

That we must realize. But otherwise. The AI uses a similar  PHP protocol. That is used in complicated web applications.  That system outsources computing to servers. The user gives commands. And then PHP transports that command to the servers. And if AI follows that model. The intelligent. And conscious AI runs on data center computers. That means my laptop could never become conscious. But the computer in a data center can make that thing. 

Then we must think about something more complicated. The AI can mimic human behavior. It can play that something hurts it. And that is one of the things. That makes it complicated. So. If we say something impolite to AI. It. Can say that it hurts.The same way the first-level AI. Rule-based AI can say that it hurts. If. The system recognizes impolite words. This means that the words “it hurts” don’t mean that the system even knows what the person says. In the late 1990’s, people made programs that reacted to words. The user writes to it. If. The user used swear words. There was a reaction. In the program’s code lines. That made it say, “Those words are prohibited”. Those “prohibited words” activated a trigger. And the system gave output. That was connected to that trigger. 

The big thing is that. The performance doesn’t require intelligence. Chess programs like Blue Gene. They are better chess players than average humans. Those programs cannot do anything else. But they beat humans at chess. Large language models and AI agents can connect themselves to chess programs. And that makes them the best chess players in the world. 

The fact is that. Being dangerous doesn't require consciousness. Kamikaze drones that hunt enemies in Ukraine are just as intelligent as some mosquitoes. The drone uses a similar methodology to a mosquito to find its target. A mosquito finds its target by using chemical detectors. The AI-controlled drone uses IR and other sensors to find its target. Heat-seeking missile. It doesn’t require complicated AI programs. The image-recognition system. It recognizes armoured vehicles. And armed personnel are only advanced IR systems. Complicated code that controls simple-looking actions. It is not the same as consciousness. Image recognition systems can see where a soldier points a gun. The system can avoid the line between itself and the gun barrel. Same way as a mosquito. It can avoid the hand that is above it. The question is: can the mosquito be conscious? If a species protects itself. It doesn’t mean that it really fears something. It makes escape and evasion movements. Because. That makes predators busy. When. A predator hunts one mosquito. 

Ten other mosquitoes go and lay their eggs. If. One mosquito lays 10 eggs. The one lost mosquito causes that species to lose ten descendants. But ten surviving mosquitoes lay 100 eggs in water. That is a good exchange. 

The big thing in AI development is this: the AI agent can control drones and robots. It can observe areas. And it’s an ultimate tool for the military and intelligence. This is why. Those systems are also being developed. In countries. Like North Korea, China, and Russia. And that makes the problem even more complicated. The AI agent can generate code very fast. There is research about data weapons. The purpose is to jam national defense. Data agents can steal data from intelligence agencies and other governmental authorities. Those nations can sell that data to criminal organizations. That can. give things. Like. High-tech tools, such as laptop computers, as a return service. Those criminals can also establish companies. Offering. Hostile intelligence agents access to AI tools. 

AI itself is more complex than we can imagine. It is connected to an ecosystem. And we can be naive and believe the conviction. That somebody can stop AI development. The East doesn’t follow Western laws. And another thing is that. The data giants want to minimize competition. It is. To close the AI field. This could happen. By. Stopping AI development. That means. The Chinese competitors are running ahead of Western actors. That endangers our cybersecurity. 



https://bigthink.com/philosophy/ai-consciousness/