Amodei: “You’re supposed to follow orders, but if something crazy enough happened, the soldiers would say, I’m not gonna do that.” Every check on power in human history came down to one thing. The entire architecture of human freedom is built on a single biological fact… that soldiers have a conscience. Amodei: “What if you have an army of 10 million drones instead of 10 million human soldiers?” The institutions telling you AI must be centralized “for your protection” are constructing the exact infrastructure he’s warning about.