It’s a bit if a personal hangup of mine how often debate about real-world actually-real matters get preempted with people objecting to certain courses of action because they saw a cheesy sci-fi movie about it (which of course has things “go wrong” because you don’t sell many tickets to a movie about everything working out fine). AI in particular has a very fertile range of scaremongering to select from so I’m perhaps a little hyper vigilant on that topic.

I haven’t read the book so I can’t speak to the philosophical aspects of it, just felt I should point out the cinematic biases of such works. In real life countermeasures to weapons are often developed in tandem with the weapons themselves. This war in Ukraine is probably going to be unique in not having them since the weapon is still so fresh.