John R. Houk, Blog Editor
© May 29, 2026
My science fiction immersed childhood and youth (1960s
-1970s with a smattering of 1980s Sci-Fi movies), has moved me into the
realm of distrust for all things Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Transhumanist
augmentation.
When I post or share my concerns critics of my distrust come
out of the woodwork claiming AI is nothing more than programming or algorithms
which cannot exceed its design. Frankly, I am not a science guy. Which means I’ll
never be able to engage with science language to dispute my critics. BUT I can
read and what I read gives me a bad feeling in my gut.
I just has another gut check after Sam Faddis and Dr. Robert
Malone. Faddis on a future AI
vs Humanity. And Dr. Malone on Transhumanist
augmentation with a smattering of AI.
When I was growing in a small town there was no internet and
no mobile devices. At the time my small town was considered a rural town even
though a State College had a presence. If it wasn’t for the college my small
town would be best described as a cow town. Indeed, the small town locals
seemed to often clash with the small State College presence.
My childhood was immersed in a culture where no one locked
their doors and you knew your neighbors from blocks around. If you ever watched
TV’s Leave
It To Beaver or the big screen The Sandlot,
those were lighthearted snapshots of my childhood culture.
As I approach 70 in November 2026, the Internet, AI, Smart
Phone and emerging Transhumanist culture seems such a sad trend compared to
memories of yesteryears.
JRH
5/29/26
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The Coming AI Intelligence Explosion And Why You Are The
Problem
By Sam
Faddis
May 28, 2026
AND
Magazine
“Jack
Clark, a cofounder of top AI company Anthropic, recently predicted that there’s
a 60% chance of an AI fully training its successor by the end of 2028, warning
that techniques to try to ensure AIs are safe today may break under recursive
self-improvement. Initiating such a process, known as an intelligence
explosion, could quickly result in uncontrollable superintelligence — AIs
vastly smarter than humans. In recent months and years, top AI scientists,
leaders, and CEOs have been warning that the development of superintelligent AI
could lead to human extinction.”
AI vs Humanity (AND
Magazine Photo)
In the intelligence business, this is what we call “bad”.
But, never mind, nothing to see here. You definitely should
not express concern about this possibility, or someone from the government
might come speak with you.
Let me explain.
First of all, let’s talk about this whole “intelligence
explosion” thing. Here’s the gist. Up until now, we have dealt with computers
and programs that we program. Periodically, somebody announces they have
created a new, more advanced “thing”, and we debate its pros and cons, but we
assume that we are the ones doing the creating. We are the ones making the
decisions. We are in control.
We are fast approaching the day when, for AI, that will no
longer be true in any relevant sense. AI will have the capacity to evolve,
“advance” and morph into something completely new. It will do so, of course, at
the speed of light. This will not be gradual. This may well be effectively
instantaneous. By the time you even know it has happened, it is too late. You
are living, or perhaps not living, with the consequences.
Yes, if you ever watched Terminator 2: Judgment Day, you
will now be hearing in your head echoes of this line. “Skynet begins to
learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time,
August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.”
“This brings us to the central
feature of AI risk: Unless an AI is specifically programmed to preserve what
humans value, it may destroy those valued structures. As Yudkowsky puts it,
‘the AI does not love you, nor does it hate you, but you are made of atoms it
can use for something else.’”
Intelligence Explosion: Evidence and Import
The economic impacts of the rush to expand AI are already
upon us. Estimates
are that AI is taking 16,000 jobs net away from humans every month. Nobody has
any clear idea of what those people are now supposed to do for work. Now, on
top of what may prove to be economic devastation, we are talking about rolling
the dice and hoping AI doesn’t just decide to erase humanity and start with a
clean slate.
And the government’s reaction to all this is to trot out the
usual Deep State playbook and begin to label and categorize anyone protesting
and asking questions. To that end, we now have a new acronym, AGAAVE, anti-government,
anti-authority, violent extremist. Yes, that is now a thing.
A recent Wired magazine expose did an admirable job of
shining a light on a whole series of governmental entities, at the federal,
state, and local levels, that are now highly concerned about dangerous nutjobs
who are trying to hold up this whole AI goldrush and raising concerns about its
implications.
“Among
the documents in the tranche obtained by Wired Magazine is a New York
Intelligence and Counterterrorism Bureau report that warns of widespread
upheaval in response to AI adoption. Of particular note is a novel term for
what the bureau purports to be an emerging extremism threat.”
‘The
chaotic atmosphere that may result from emergent AI technology in the next five
years may fuel large-scale protests that devolve into civil unrest and
anti-tech violent extremist activity, especially in large urban areas such as
New York City,’ the report reads. The term ‘anti-tech violent extremism’ does
not appear in any publicly available DHS or FBI domestic extremism reports or
guides and represents a novel grouping of a wide range of ideologies under a
single extremist category.”
No word on whether these anti-tech people also include some
of those “crazy” people who raised concerns about electoral integrity or
resisted taking experimental vaccines to combat a disease that was essentially
a bad flu, or thought we should not be throwing Joe Biden’s political opponents
in prison and spying on sitting members of Congress.
Lest you think that the government has confined itself to
simply writing reports and creating new categories of “extremist,” the Wired
report makes clear that agencies at multiple levels are already targeting
anti-AI and anti-data center groups operationally and monitoring their
activities.
“The
documents obtained by WIRED also show that fusion centers are currently keeping
tabs on in-person assemblies. The Northern Virginia center generated a report
about demonstrations at local civic events, including the Arlington County
budget meeting and the Fairfax County School Board meeting. Across the country,
town halls and budget committee meetings have been among the chief forums for
local residents to express their dissent with data centers being built in their
neighborhoods.”
“But
perhaps the clearest-cut example of how nonviolent critiques of technology can
be swept up along with threats is found in an open-source report circulated by
SITE Intelligence in April 2025. The report flags a video from the progressive
nonprofit More Perfect Union on the destructive effects of a data center to
nearby residents in Georgia. Nothing in the video advocated for violence
against property or people. But thanks to fusion center targeting, the advocacy
group is now circulating among US intelligence and law enforcement across the
country as a potential threat vector.”
We are driving toward a cliff at full throttle. We have
uncorked a bottle and released a genie that we do not fully understand and
which we may well not be able to control. Experts in the field of AI are
talking openly about the distinct possibility that this thing we have created
may simply decide one day in the blink of an eye to utilize our atoms
differently. It may simply erase us and start over.
But if you are raising concerns about that, you are the
problem.
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Human Augmentation Is No Longer Science Fiction
By Dr.
Robert W. Malone
May 28, 2026
Malone
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Human Augmentation - The
Next Battlefield (Malone
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Three years ago, we wrote about a joint UK and German
Ministry of Defense report titled Human Augmentation – The Dawn of a New
Paradigm (1,2). At the time, many critics dismissed the document as
speculative futurism, military fantasy, or the fever dream of transhumanists
intoxicated by Silicon Valley ideology.
It is no longer possible to deny the reality of the
situation - human augmentation is being developed more rapidly than we all
could have imagined.
What was once presented as theoretical is now becoming
operational doctrine.
The discussion has shifted. Human augmentation is no longer
framed primarily as a distant ethical dilemma. It is increasingly being treated
by military planners, AI developers, and national security bureaucracies as an
unavoidable strategic necessity. The language has changed from “should we?” to
“how fast can we deploy it before our adversaries do?”
That should alarm everyone.
The original report argued that future wars would not be won
by whoever possessed the best machines, but by whoever most effectively merged
human beings with machines (2). At the time, that sounded like science fiction
to many.
But look around today. AI copilots are everywhere.
Autonomous drones -which rumor has it are capable of deciding who lives and who
dies without a human pulling the trigger- dominate modern battlefields.
Machine-learning systems increasingly assist intelligence analysis, targeting,
surveillance, logistics, and command decisions.
The battlefield envisioned by the report is arriving faster
than even its authors predicted.
And the missing piece is no longer the machine.
It is the human.
Military planners are now openly discussing ways to optimize
cognition, decision speed, stress tolerance, fatigue resistance, emotional
regulation, and direct brain-machine communication. Not someday. Now.
DARPA has aggressively advanced programs designed to create
high-performance brain-computer interfaces for military personnel (3). The
stated goal is to allow soldiers to directly interact with autonomous systems,
including drone swarms and AI-assisted battlefield platforms. Recent military
papers openly discuss reducing “cognitive overload” through neural interfaces
linked to machine-learning systems (5).
Think carefully about what that means.
The problem modern warfare faces is not merely firepower. It
is information saturation. The side that can process information faster, fuse
data more efficiently, and shorten decision loops gains overwhelming advantage.
Human augmentation is increasingly viewed as the solution.
This is not about stronger muscles or robotic exoskeletons,
although those continue to be developed for logistics and battlefield endurance
(8). The real focus has shifted toward the brain itself.
§ Cognitive
warfare.
§ Neurostimulation.
§ Behavioral
optimization.
§ AI-linked
command systems.
§ Pharmacologic
enhancement.
§ Predictive
biometric monitoring.
§ Direct
neural integration with machines.
This is where the money is going.
And once again, the same rhetorical pathway appears that we
have seen so many times before. The technologies are introduced under the
banner of therapy, rehabilitation, safety, and medical necessity. Advanced
prosthetics become enhanced prosthetics. Neurological rehabilitation becomes
cognitive optimization. Monitoring for wellness becomes monitoring for
performance and compliance.
The line between treatment and enhancement rapidly
disappears.
That is not speculation. That is exactly what military and
bioethics literature is now openly discussing (7,9).
One of the most disturbing developments over the last three
years is how quickly ethical resistance has softened inside defense circles.
Increasingly, military ethicists argue that democratic nations may need to
loosen ethical restrictions on enhancement technologies because authoritarian
adversaries will not hesitate to deploy them (6).
In other words, the moral argument is becoming secondary to
geopolitical competition.
The logic is brutally simple:
If China develops enhanced warfighters and the West refuses
to compete, the West loses.
That argument is now appearing with increasing frequency in
military policy discussions.
The original UK-German report bluntly stated that human
augmentation should not ultimately be decided by ethicists or public opinion,
but by national interest (2). At the time, that statement shocked many readers.
Today it reads less like a warning and more like a roadmap.
Perhaps the most profound shift since 2022 is cultural.
The public has already been conditioned for much of this
transition.
Millions of people now voluntarily wear devices that
continuously track sleep, heart rate, movement, stress, location, temperature,
and biological activity. AI systems increasingly monitor behavior,
communications, productivity, and emotional state. Entire generations have
normalized the idea that biological and behavioral data should be constantly
harvested, analyzed, and fed into algorithmic systems.
Human beings are gradually being transformed into integrated
biological data platforms.
And once that infrastructure exists, military and state
applications inevitably follow.
The old industrial model treated humans as machine
operators.
The emerging biotech model treats humans themselves as
programmable platforms.
That is the real paradigm shift.
What makes this especially dangerous is the extraordinary
hubris driving much of the field. Increasingly, scientists, technologists,
military planners, and governments speak openly about directing human evolution
itself through genetic engineering, neurotechnology, and AI-assisted biological
modification (4).
Six million years of evolution are now viewed by some as
merely an outdated starting point to be “optimized.”
History suggests caution here.
Every era that became convinced it could engineer a better
human being eventually descended into ethical catastrophe. The tools change.
The rhetoric modernizes. But the underlying temptation remains the same:
centralizing power over biology itself.
And unlike the crude eugenics movements of the past, modern
human augmentation is emerging wrapped in the language of medicine, national
security, efficiency, resilience, and technological progress.
That makes it far more politically durable.
The greatest danger may not be some dramatic moment when
governments announce the arrival of “enhanced humans.” The real danger is
incremental normalization.
Small steps.
§ Therapeutic
uses.
§ Military
exemptions.
§ Workplace
optimization.
§ AI-assisted
monitoring.
§ Cognitive
enhancement “for safety.”
§ Genetic
modification “for resilience.”
Until eventually the infrastructure for total biological
integration already exists before society fully understands what has happened.
Three years ago, many people laughed at the idea that
governments and militaries were seriously planning for large-scale human
augmentation.
They are not laughing anymore.
The frightening part is not that the technology is coming.
The frightening part is how quietly the debate is
disappearing.
JGM/RWM
References
1. Malone RW. Human Augmentation: The Dawn of a
New Paradigm. Malone News. January 2022.
https://www.malone.news/p/human-augmentation-the-dawn-of-a
2. UK Ministry of Defence and German Federal Ministry
of Defence. Human Augmentation – The Dawn of a New Paradigm: A Strategic
Implications Project. May 2021.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/60c749f8d3bf7f4bd0e3b1a5/Human_Augmentation_SIP_access2.pdf
3. DARPA. Next-Generation Nonsurgical
Neurotechnology (N3).
https://www.darpa.mil/research/programs/next-generation-nonsurgical-neurotechnology
4. DARPA. Safe Genes Program.
https://www.darpa.mil/research/programs/safe-genes
5. Shendruk TN et al. Brain Computer Interface
Technology for Future Battlefield. arXiv. 2023.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.07818
6. Small Wars Journal. Neither Ironman nor the
Hulk: Human Enhancements for Military Purposes. January 2025.
https://smallwarsjournal.com/2025/01/24/neither-ironman-nor-the-hulk-human-enhancements-for-military-purposes/
7. BMJ Military Health. Emerging Military
Applications of Neuroenhancement and Cognitive Optimization. 2025.
https://militaryhealth.bmj.com/content/early/2025/08/18/military-2025-002964
8. Wired Magazine. The US Army’s Vision of an
Exoskeleton Future Lives On.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-armys-vision-of-an-exoskeleton-future-lives-on
9. National Library of Medicine / PMC. Ethical and
Policy Challenges in Human Enhancement Technologies.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12799693/
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Malone, MD
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