Week Ten


Tuesday

AI & War

People failed to update a database, and other people built a system fast enough to make that failure lethal.

Kevin Baker, “AI Got the Blame for the Iran School Bombing. The Truth Is Far More Worrying

Kevin Baker, “AI Got the Blame for the Iran School Bombing. The Truth Is Far More Worrying,” News, The Guardian, March 26, 2026, https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for-the-iran-school-bombing-the-truth-is-far-more-worrying.

Amos Toh and Emile Ayoub, The Business of Military AI (Brennan Center for Justice, 2025), https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/business-military-ai.

In-class activities

Today’s slides

Question for you re. GenAI

Thursday

Wrapping up

Changing the story isn’t enough in itself, but it has often been foundational to real changes. Making an injury visible and public is usually the first step in remedying it, and political change often follows culture, as what was long tolerated is seen to be intolerable, or what was overlooked becomes obvious. Which means that every conflict is in part a battle over the story we tell, or who tells and who is heard.

REBECCA SOLNIT, “HOPE IS AN EMBRACE OF THE UNKNOWN”

In-class activities

Today’s slides

Chad Topaz’s video for you

Chad Topaz

Chad’s book, Unlocking Justice (also available online via the library)

Chad’s nonprofit, The QSide Institute

Rebecca Solnit: Hope in the Dark

Kelly Hayes, Read This When Things Fall Apart