The danger here isn't a machine that outsmarts us. It's a machine that is easy to fool, sitting in a position of trust that we gave it because it was convenient. Efficiency is a good reason to adopt a tool, but it's a bad reason to hand it authority we wouldn't give a new hire on day one.
History is littered with the ghosts of empires that fell and vanished entirely. Babylon is a set of quiet ruins; the Western Roman Empire exists only in textbooks; the ancient Hittites and Assyrians were ultimately swallowed by time.
Most people look for foreign influence at the federal border, but on July 30, a paper trail inside the Texas State Capitol proved the real beachhead might be in the state’s banking system.
