Algorithmic Warfare: When Your Code Becomes a Weapon and You Become the Combatant
The great irony of 21st-century conflict is that the most dangerous soldiers rarely wear uniforms. They don’t march through deserts or rappel from helicopters. Instead, they sit in climate-controlled offices, sip mediocre coffee, and write code that decides whether a person lives or dies. Welcome to the age of algorithmic warfare—where programmers have unexpectedly become combatants in a conflict that transcends geography, operates at machine speed, and blurs every traditional line we’ve drawn around warfare, ethics, and accountability....