[Oe List ...] the new Iran?

[Ken Gillgren]

Well, aside from the critical role of Symbol, context, context, context is key, and the major immediate issue is that the Israeli/USA assaults on Iran, aside from the ideological conflicts, is that Iran has been put on Death Ground, the last place you want to place an adversary, and apparently the Oman negotiator had just announced a possible pathway to peace on Friday, which was not only shut down by the Saturday decapitation of Iran leadership, but told the world (apparently now including Russia) that the US cannot be trusted in negotiations (also see Canada moves to rebuild trade and defense coalitions that don’t depend on the US). AI or not, we are indeed in dangerous, uncharted times. And as someone else observed, AI depends on the data its fed, and there is conjecture that the attack on the girls school was due to feeding obsolete data into the mix.

It might be interested to feed a prompt that could point to what we “on the street” could do, given the volatility and delayed responses at the national and international level.

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Ken Gillgren
kgillgren at igc.org

> On Wednesday, Mar 11, 2026 at 5:14 PM, Wesson Gaige via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net (mailto:oe at lists.wedgeblade.net)> wrote:
> Each AI is trained differently. They can be trained with whatever biases their trainers want them to have.
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> How much an AI understands of the Symbolic depends on the lens of its trainer.
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> "Whatever the problem, community is the answer. There is no power greater than a community discovering what it cares about." Margaret Wheatley
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> Wesson Gaige
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> > On Mar 11, 2026, at 17:36, Dharmalingam Vinasithamby via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
> > It's interesting how "AI" has internalised the image of the "The Axis of Evil" pitted against the Western campaign of liberalisation to bring peace and democracy to the world. I read recently that AI is being trained to recognize anything that might limit or curb Zionism as undesirable. Are we also being guided to see AI as an impartial font of wisdom that views the world with great impartialilty?
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