By Francesco Grillo
Publication Date: 2026-04-09 11:15:00
The conflict in Iran – but also the war in Ukraine – show not only that AI is radically changing the economics of war (which could be good news), but also that we may be heading towards a kind of “Chernobyl moment”. We may soon experience a catastrophe that forces us to belatedly realize that we should have established common rules to govern a technological development of our own making.
Even Dario Amodei, the founder of AI company Anthropic, who seems passionate about taking action to prevent Armageddon, admits he doesn’t have the answer we desperately need.
One of the most interesting attempts to regulate the use of artificial intelligence may have been the one designed during World War II by a graduate student at Columbia University who was then temporarily employed by the US Navy. His name was Isaac Asimov and in his early short story Runaround (1941) he postulated three laws that are still surprisingly inspiring to anyone who thinks about them…
