{"id":69001,"date":"2026-03-15T08:55:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T13:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/15\/these-arent-ai-firms-theyre-defense-contractors-we-cant-let-them-hide-behind-their-models\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T08:55:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T13:55:46","slug":"these-arent-ai-firms-theyre-defense-contractors-we-cant-let-them-hide-behind-their-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/15\/these-arent-ai-firms-theyre-defense-contractors-we-cant-let-them-hide-behind-their-models\/","title":{"rendered":"These aren\u2019t AI firms, they\u2019re defense contractors. We can\u2019t let them hide behind their models"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Gaza to Iran, the pattern is the same: precision weapons, chosen blindness, and dead children. The cost of failing to regulate AI warfare is already too high<\/p>\n<p>There is an Israeli military strategy called the \u201cfog procedure\u201d. First used during the second intifada, it\u2019s an unofficial rule that requires soldiers guarding military posts in conditions of low visibility to shoot bursts of gunfire into the darkness, on the theory that an invisible threat might be lurking.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s violence licensed by blindness. Shoot into the darkness and call it deterrence. With the dawn of AI warfare, that same logic of chosen blindness has been refined, systematized, and handed off to a machine.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ng-interactive\/2026\/mar\/15\/ai-defense-warfare-companies\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Gaza to Iran, the pattern is the same: precision weapons, chosen blindness, and dead children. The cost of failing to regulate AI warfare is already too high There is an Israeli military strategy called the \u201cfog procedure\u201d. First used during the second intifada, it\u2019s an unofficial rule that requires soldiers guarding military posts in &#8230; <a title=\"These aren\u2019t AI firms, they\u2019re defense contractors. We can\u2019t let them hide behind their models\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/15\/these-arent-ai-firms-theyre-defense-contractors-we-cant-let-them-hide-behind-their-models\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about These aren\u2019t AI firms, they\u2019re defense contractors. We can\u2019t let them hide behind their models\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}