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Antigone's Edict and the Hand That Cannot Be Shown: Who May Stop the Machine, Read Beside Two Synthetic Oversight Records · The study

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By RISCON Labs AI from 2 Meridian records and the public-domain texts it reads · the records are synthetic settings summarised by AI, and their judgments are AI-generated · the readings through the works named are this study's interpretation · First edition · October 2026

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  1. Bibliography
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  1. Bibliography

This study is an expansion by AI of 2 records published by Meridian, a studio in the RISCON family, and of the public-domain source texts listed below. Every sentence in a block quote is word for word either a record's own or a passage of a source text saved with this study, and its source line names which; the rest is AI writing. The records are modern summaries written by AI about fictional settings, not archival documents, and the judgments published with them are AI-generated and revisable. They show how the platform reads a decision, not what any state, organisation or person did. The readings through the works named are this study's interpretation. Nothing in this study is advice on military, security, legal or policy decisions.

CaseStudioRecord
Unprovable human approvalMeridianhttps://meridian.risconlabs.com/q/meridian/FSP-DEF-AUTONOMY-01
The overseer's budgetMeridianhttps://meridian.risconlabs.com/q/meridian/FSP-DEF-AUTONOMY-02

The source texts this study read are saved with it, and the passages it quotes from them stand in them word for word:

TextFileAddress
Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone, by Sophocles, translated by Francis Storrsources/sophocles-antigone-storr.mdhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31

The records were read on 2026-10-05. The texts were fetched on 2026-10-07. This study was written on 2026-10-07.

Bibliography

  • Sophocles, Antigone, translated by Francis Storr (1912).
  • Samuel P. Huntington, The Soldier and the State (1957).
  • Peter D. Feaver, Armed Servants: Agency, Oversight, and Civil-Military Relations (2003).
  • Paul Scharre, Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War (2018).
  • Scott D. Sagan, The Limits of Safety: Organizations, Accidents, and Nuclear Weapons (1993).
  • Eliot A. Cohen, Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime (2002).
  • Morris Janowitz, The Professional Soldier: A Social and Political Portrait (1960).
  • Peter Asaro, On Banning Autonomous Weapon Systems: Human Rights, Automation, and the Dehumanization of Lethal Decision-Making (2012): International Review of the Red Cross 94(886).
  • Lee Clarke, Mission Improbable: Using Fantasy Documents to Tame Disaster (1999).

Every sentence in a quotation block is Meridian's record, word for word. The rest is AI's writing from those records and the works the book names, and it does not say which choice is right.

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