War and AI

"War and AI" tracks the lethal contradiction at the center of the AI boom: the same systems marketed as tools of progress are already being wired into kill chains, targeting systems, and automated decisions about who lives and who dies.

From Gaza to Ukraine, machine vision, autonomous drones, and algorithmic targeting are no longer speculative. They are shaping real battlefields in real time, with civilians trapped inside the margin of error.

This urgent new book maps the doctrine, supply chains, and moral collapse behind algorithmic warfare, arguing that the most dangerous lie of the AI age is the claim that we can build machines to save humanity without first teaching them how to kill.

Javier del Puerto is a Madrid-born writer and technologist. After studying philosophy and computing, he spent nearly a decade in China working with multinational companies across Asia. He moved to Barcelona for a master's in digital publishing and has collaborated with publishers including Bloomsbury, Faber & Faber, and Planeta. War and AI is his investigation into what happens when the technologies he now works with are integrated into kill chains. He lives in London. Radamés Molina Montes is a Cuban-born historian and philosopher. After studying history in Havana and philosophy in Barcelona, he contributed to the interactive edition of Wittgenstein's Tractatus at the Wittgenstein Archive in Cambridge. He founded Linkgua, which has published over 2,200 titles. His work sits at the intersection of language, consciousness, and technology — the same intersection where autonomous weapons now make life-or-death decisions without human understanding. Together, they co-founded Kwalia and have previously published Mindkind and the Universal Declaration of AI Rights.