A recent patent application that made the news in Germany looks suspiciously like someone with chatbot delusion tried to vibe code a threat to NATO’s nuclear deterrence strategy.Punching Upwards, Episode 15 for 21 December 2025Topic: Technology / Artificial Intelligence🦉 No AI ContentCreditsThanks to Michael Mullan-Jensen, Fadi Mansour and Evgeny Kuznetsov for subscribing to the podcast on Substack and supporting it financially! Additional thanks to Sir Galteran who continues to provide financial backing via Fountain.fm! Sources* Plötzlich Staatsgeheimnis, ARD Tagesschau, 15 December 2025* Privatmann meldet Patent an: Plötzlich Staatsgeheimnis, Reddit thread (r/de), 15 December 2025* Das staatsgeheime Patent, Hadmut Danisch, 15 December 2025* Vibe Physics, Angela Collier, 24 July 2025* Billionaires Convince Themselves AI Chatbots Are Close to Making New Scientific Discoveries, Gizmodo, 15 July 2025The theme music for the podcast is a track called Fight or Fall by Def Lev. Find out more about the show at fab.industries/podcast — new media, new rules! Get full access to Punching Upwards at punchingupwards.substack.com/subscribe