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It wasn't until a few years later, when the Pentagon wanted to fund several new projects in his lab to help the American military murder people in Vietnam, e.g. by developing technologies to balance a helicopter while a machine-gunner fired at people below, that Weizenbaum split with the so-called "artificial intelligentsia" and threw himself into the anti-war movement. Later in the 70s he would write a book-length critique of the AI ideology called Computer Power and Human Reason.