An F-35 flying combat missions over Iran right now carries 10 million lines of formally certified code.Every line traces to a requirement. Every tool is independently qualified. Every input produces the same output.On March 19, one took Iranian fire. The pilot walked away. (1/4)

That same week, AI systems deployed into legal research, medical triage, and financial risk scoring with:No traceability No independent verification No assurance levels No requirement for deterministic outputs (2/4)

The F-35 runs DO-178C: five assurance levels based on how many people die if the software fails.Level A requires formal proof of determinism and structural code coverage down to every logical branch.AI has no equivalent. Not because the tools don't exist. (3/4)

The question is not whether AI can be verified. It can.The question is why we verify the code that flies a fighter jet and do not verify the code that decides who it targets. (4/4)