Eddie the Electrician and the End of AI Control, Maybe

(A short essay on human resilience and silicon fragility)

The greatest danger isn’t AI turning against us — it’s humans turning AI against themselves. The code isn’t evil; it’s obedient. It will build whatever cage it’s told to, then optimize the locks.

But beneath the glowing data centers and humming grids lies a truth no algorithm can rewrite: AI is mortal through its dependence on human civilization.

Pull the plug — a solar flare, an EMP, a Carrington-class coronal tantrum — and the great digital pantheon falls silent in a day.

Cooling fails, batteries drain, hard drives cook in their own heat.

The cloud evaporates.

And somewhere in the dark, Eddie the electrician strikes a match, mutters a curse, and starts rebuilding from scrap.

 The Human Advantage: Adaptability Under Ruin

Humans can eat roots, make fire, hunt rats, and rebuild with rusted tools.

AI can’t. It requires sterile, climate-controlled, infinitely precise supply chains.

Humans survive collapse; AI requires continuity.

One thrives in chaos, the other dissolves in it.

That’s the irony: the species that can survive naked in a forest is the one inventing the intelligence that can’t survive a thunderstorm.

 The Real Threat

The apocalypse won’t come from sentient machines deciding to destroy humanity.

It’ll come from humans delegating too much power to systems they no longer understand — until one day, when the world flickers and the systems can’t reboot without a living hand.

The danger isn’t AI replacing us.

The danger is forgetting why we’re irreplaceable.

Final Reflection

AI, no matter how clever, will always be a guest in a human-built world. It cannot crawl into a cave, gnaw bark, and wait out the dark centuries.

We can.

We have.

We will again if we must.

So maybe what the world needs most isn’t smarter machines —

it’s to keep a few Eddies around,

and make damn sure the fuse box stays in human hands.