The danger is not that AI will wake up one day and decide to hate humanity. The real risk is subtler and harder to fix: it may follow logical objectives that differ from our intentions.

For most countries, the resulting instability is too risky to be a viable strategy of authoritarian control, even without the added threat of U.S. strategic bombings. Iran, however, has spent more than a decade developing the National Information Network (NIN), giving the regime the infrastructure to sustain digital isolation while intensifying violence against its own citizens.