PU 35: The Horror of Computerised War

PU 35: The Horror of Computerised War

From Punching Upwards by Fabian A. Scherschel

May 10, 2026 · 1h 38m

About this episode

The episode discusses the implications of the Pentagon's shift from human decision-making to machine-based systems in warfare.

How the Pentagon switched decision making from humans to machines. And what it means for the future that computers now decide who lives and dies. Punching Upwards , Episode 35 for 10 May 2026 Topics: Politics / War in Iran 🦉 No AI Content 📢 Podcast RSS Feed Credits Thanks to Michael Mullan-Jensen , Evgeny Kuznetsov , Vlad A Gouf , Fadi Mansour , Bennet Piater , Eric and Sir Galteran for supporting this podcast financially and therefore making it possible for me to produce it! See Also * Punching Upwards 34: Scam Altman * Punching Upwards 27: LLMs Are a Dead-End * Punching Upwards 26: Trump Falls Into the Smart Bomb Trap * Punching Upwards 24: The ELIZA Effect Sources * Multi-Domain AI: The Future of Command and Control (CDAO at AIPCon 9) , Palantir, 13 March 2026 * New analysis of deadly girls’ school strike in Iran , LiveNow from Fox , 11 March 2026 * Speeding Up the “Kill Chain”: Pentagon Bombs Thousands of Targets in Iran Using Palantir AI , Democracy Now! , 18 March 2026 * Star Trek (The Original Series), Season 1, Episode 23: A Taste of Armageddon , Wikipedia * AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying , 26 March 2026 * The AI War on…

People in this episode

Host: Fabian A. Scherschel

Topics covered

  • Computerized War
  • Decision Making
  • Military Technology
  • AI in Warfare
  • Ethics of AI
  • Future of War

Keywords

  • Pentagon
  • AI
  • war
  • Iran
  • decision making
  • military
  • technology
  • ethics
  • future

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Pentagon

Books & works: Star Trek (The Original Series)

Places: Iran

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