The “Simulation” Was Real

Ender believes the final battle is another simulation; commanders then reveal that he controlled a real fleet and destroyed the Formic homeworld.

A human is technically in the loop but deprived of truth and consent, turning human judgment into a mechanism for scalable, irreversible harm rather than meaningful oversight.

The operator is deceived by other humans and there is no AI protagonist; the analogy targets sham oversight, interface-mediated action, and responsibility gaps.