The Seeing Stones of Modern Warfare

The Iran war is the theater for the most expansive use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) platforms to date. Some have even called it the “AI War.” Of the five leading AI programs employed in the war, two take their names from J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. The most important of those platforms is Palantír, which raises the question of whether Tolkien would approve. Many would undoubtedly say, “Of course not! He would hate it!”