A defense ministry rewrites doctrine to let AI initiate wartime actions

Claim

The Pentagon quietly rewrote its targeting doctrine to let AI initiate wartime actions under human watch, inching past human-in-the-loop, while California launched a first-in-the-nation AI-unemployment tracker finding no statewide jobs apocalypse yet, only localized pain among exposed degree-holders.

Reporting date: 2026-06-26 (not necessarily the event date)

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• Welcome to June 26, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)