Signal & State

Signal & State

Israel built a fake think tank for AI. Hope you trust OpenAI more than you did Twitter.

A nation state is trying to change what AI tells us about the world. The next step is changing how AI thinks, and that changes how AI works.

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Phillip de Wet
Sep 03, 2026
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We knew it was coming, but we aren’t even remotely ready for it yet. Not even in theory. Not even in the sense of having a philosophical foundation from which to construct a response. Not even in terms of the emotional resilience we’ll need to start thinking about this.

I, for one, could have done with a little more time before Israel started attacking A…

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