A Hollywood Question With a Real-World Edge In Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, the threat is not a missile or a hostile nation. It is “The Entity,” an artificial intelligence that learns, adapts, and quietly shapes outcomes faster than humans can react. It works as fiction because it feels just plausible enough. Military artificial intelligence today is still controlled by humans, but the pace and scale of its expansion are creating new questions about oversight, accountability,