Peregrine Rand reflects on Marc Bloch’s Strange Defeat and the future threat of artificial intelligenceEmma Brockes’ article struck a chord (It’s finally happened: I’m now worried about artificial intelligence. He attributes the debacle at least in part to a failure of imagination on the part of the French general staff, who were incapable of grasping that tech, and war, had fundamentally changed since 1918.Brockes’ article suggests that we, and our leaders, are suffering from the same inability to understand that a tech which is currently amusingly alarming will develop in less amusing ways – the future Marshal Ferdinand Foch had, according to Bloch, earlier dismissed aircraft as being a toy for hobbyists and not of any military interest. I am reading Marc Bloch’s Strange Defeat, in which the eminent French historian and soon-to-be-executed resistance worker gives a first-hand account of the collapse of the French army in 1940. And consulting ChatGPT did nothing to allay my fears, 8 April). Continue reading…
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