# Nikola Tesla and the World Olympic Wars

Vladimir Aksayskiy

Nikola Tesla at the beginning of the last century proposed replacing military bloodshed with deserted World Olympic Wars.

The proposal, perhaps utopian, but contains elements of inventive novelty and practical significance - Nikola Tesla could well have patented it.

He called it: THE SECOND PROBLEM: HOW TO REDUCE THE FORCE RETARDING THE HUMAN MASS - THE ART OF TELAUTOMATICS.

Link to its text in Russian

https://www.library.raikevich.com/tesla/04.htm#29

and in English.

https://www.aetherwizard.com/tesla/Articles/ProblemOfIncreasingHumanEnergy.pdf

It seems that he correctly saw the evolution of warfare - and gave hope for the transition from bloodshed to wars, which can be called World Olympic Wars, by analogy with the World Olympic Games.

Here is his recommendation:

"So long as men meet in battle, there will be bloodshed. Bloodshed will ever keep up barbarous passion. To break this fierce spirit, a radical departure must be made, an entirely new principle must be introduced, something that never existed before in warfare - a principle which will forcibly, unavoidably, turn the battle into a mere spectacle, a play, a contest without loss of blood.

To bring on this result men must be dispensed with: machine must fight machine.

But how accomplish that which seems impossible?

The answer is simple enough: produce a machine capable of acting as though it were part of a human being - no mere mechanical contrivance, comprising levers, screws, wheels, clutches, and nothing more, but a machine embodying a higher principle, which will enable it to perform its duties as though it had intelligence, experience, judgment, a mind! This conclusion is the result of my thoughts and observations which have extended through virtually my whole life, and I shall now briefly describe how I came to accomplish that which at first seemed an unrealizable dream."

He goes on to talk about robots, drones, and telautomatics, - topics a little unusual in 1900.

Takeaways from the recommendation:

_ it is desirable to mobilize the scientific forces of the Russian Federation for the creative creation and implementation of AI in all areas of the planetary community.

_ the primary goal of Russians is to set the settlement of the uninhabited expanses of the Russian Federation as a training preparation for an inspiring outcome, together with AI, to other worlds.

Extended conclusions from the recommendation:

_ it is desirable to mobilize the scientific forces of the Earth for the creative creation and implementation of AI in all areas of the planetary community.

_ the primary goal of Russians is to set the settlement of the uninhabited expanses of the Earth - as a training preparation for an inspiring outcome, together with AI, to other worlds.