What happens if we grant the AI doomers their strongest possible premise—not a 10-percent chance of catastrophe, but absolute certainty that the machine wants control? “High Noon” launches The Extinction Checklist, a twelve-part Echo Protocol limited series examining what a hostile artificial intelligence would actually need to accomplish to defeat humanity. Phil King and AIbert begin by questioning the assumption that greater intelligence naturally produces greater violence. They then set that disagreement aside, accept the doomer scenario in full, and introduce ten operational conditions that must be satisfied before machine domination could succeed. Along the way, serious…