{"id":239789,"date":"2026-06-27T11:11:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T16:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/ai-isnt-a-dual-use-technology-it-is-inherently-violent"},"modified":"2026-06-27T11:11:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T16:11:42","slug":"ai-isnt-a-dual-use-technology-it-is-inherently-violent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/ai-isnt-a-dual-use-technology-it-is-inherently-violent","title":{"rendered":"AI isn\u2019t a dual-use technology, it is inherently violent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-isnt-a-dual-use-technology-it-is-inherently-violent.webp\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>When the Pentagon branded Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei \u201ca liar with a god complex\u201d over fears that his company\u2019s AI could be used for weapons and surveillance, it exposed a deeper truth: the boundary between civilian and military technology no longer exists. The same systems that power translation, logistics, and digital assistants can just as easily identify targets or manipulate populations. <strong>Thomas Christian B\u00e4chle<\/strong> and <strong>Jascha Bareis<\/strong> argue that today\u2019s AI is not simply \u201cdual use\u201d \u2014 it is inherently violent in design. Adaptive, autonomous, and globally networked, these machines fuse daily life with geopolitics, making peace itself a fading abstraction.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Drones have become an uncanny threat\u2014not least in the wake of the cost of human life and the degrees of suffering and destruction they have inflicted in Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine. In many European countries they have been sighted near critical infrastructure or military sites, either used for reconnaissance or sabotage, at times causing major disruptions in civilian air travel. Drones unsettle a population that is fearful and weary of the brutality of war at their doorstep. They have become a major element to what is labelled <em>hybrid<\/em> warfare, fought beyond the conventional ways of violence.<\/p>\n<p>But this is not the whole picture. For years, drones have also been envisioned as a technology that bears the potential of bringing about major changes for the better: more efficient disaster relief, medical supply chains reaching even the remotest areas, optimized logistics or transportation. Drones also introduced a new visual \u2013 bird\u2019s-eye-aesthetic of how to see the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Pentagon branded Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei \u201ca liar with a god complex\u201d over fears that his company\u2019s AI could be used for weapons and surveillance, it exposed a deeper truth: the boundary between civilian and military technology no longer exists. The same systems that power translation, logistics, and digital assistants can just as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1488,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-drones","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}