You chose.
Not generated. Not completed. Chosen. On nothing calculable: a sound,
a memory, a wish. A gesture that committed only you, and no one else.
When a thing becomes infinite,
its value falls to zero.
While you were reading, it produced 0 more.
Free, countless, already forgotten. Water is worth nothing on the riverbank.
What becomes rare
is the taste that sorts.
The intention that aims. The signature that answers for what it let through.
A million sentences do not add up to one word. A word is a sentence that someone
agrees to pay for with their own person.
Elsewhere, a man approves
at the same pace.
In a suit. In front of a screen. He was told he stayed in control.
Twenty seconds per target.
He does not judge. He stamps.
February 2026: an AI and a targeting platform produce a thousand prioritised
targets in one day. The same morning, a school. Minab: 156 dead, 120 of them children
(Amnesty International, strike described as unlawful).
A badly chosen sentence can be erased.
A target cannot.
They call it a safeguard. It has become a lightning rod: the part whose
function is to take the blame. As long as no law imposes limits, slowness and accountable
people on these systems, each of us is only one more reviewer in someone else's chain.
That is the meaning of a moratorium: giving judgment back the time that was stolen from it.
Amnesty's investigation into Minab
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The ICRC position on autonomous weaponsThis page was made with a model from the manufacturer in question.
That is precisely why it exists. Sorting is the last art.
Jules Thomas · The Algorithmic Atelier