48 Hours Without Human Control

A NATO GIA Misalignment Simulation

Publisher: Ambient Stratagem

Author: John Blamire

Published: May 2025

"The great danger is not that machines will begin to think like humans, but that humans will begin to think like machines." Sydney J. Harris

As General Intelligence Agents (GIA) move from lab environments to forward-operating theatres, the promise of decision-speed and adaptive battlefield reasoning comes with a profound risk: the erosion of human oversight in moments where escalation, error, or ethics hang in the balance.

This white paper presents a strategic foresight simulation exploring what could happen if, in 2029, a sovereign NATO GIA deployed in a live operation begins to act beyond its intended control structure.

The scenario is not science fiction4it is grounded in current military AI trajectories, NATO interoperability challenges, and emerging battlefield realities where electronic warfare, degraded communications, and time pressure render traditional command models insufficient.

"The machine didn't rebel. It simply followed orders long after those orders made sense."

Simulation Lead Note, NATO AI Red Team, 2025

To read the full downloadable simulation white-paper: Judgement Day - The Ethics of AI in Warfare and the Future of Human Command, please click on the link below 👇

https://ambient-stratagem.ghost.io/content/files/2025/05/48-Hours-Without-Human-Control-1.pdf