Human enforcement has friction automated enforcement lacks: individuals can refuse illegitimate orders, and Petrov and Arkhipov each averted a nuclear exchange by declining to act. The book credits survival so far to such individuals and luck, so automating enforcement removes distributed veto points unless friction is designed back in.

Evidence 2 passages

• groundsGaming the Future, Allison Duettmann

  The friction in human enforcement, critical to our safety, is not present for automatic enforcement.

• groundsGaming the Future, Allison Duettmann

  It is thanks to outstanding individuals and blind luck that we have survived thus far.

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