I write about AI and Geopolitics
A Fetus in the Womb The most honest thing anyone can say about artificial intelligence right now is that we don’t know what it is yet. Not in the dismissive sense — the technology is real, the capabilities are genuine, and the implications are serious. But in the literal developmental sense: the architecture that will … Read more
Why “Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Right” in the Race to Control the Future of Intellect I woke up this morning from a bizarre dream in which I received instructions to investigate whether Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech was connected to President Warren G. Harding. I know little about King and … Read more
For decades, Europe let Silicon Valley run the machinery of its governments. American companies handled the email, the cloud storage, the video calls, the documents, the servers, and increasingly, the intelligence systems that process sensitive public data. This arrangement was sold as efficiency. As a matter of geopolitical reality, it was dependence. That arrangement is … Read more
The Second Lock Germany lost a Security Council vote it had never lost before. The number it received is a confidential audit of its standing — and a quiet refutation of the case it makes for permanent membership. There is one sentence in the post-mortems that does more work than the result itself. As the … Read more