Bill Friend

Enabling abuse through the mislabeling of terrorism isn’t an abstract risk. It’s already built into how states, institutions, and even the UN system talk about, regulate, and punish “terrorism,” often at the expense of civil society and ordinary people. Why I chose this fight I chose the title “Enabling Abuse Through the Mislabeling of Terrorism,” … Read more

Why Civilian Immunity Fails Without Consequence The targeting of civilians in war bothers me to a degree I can’t begin to express. I’ve seen so much of it lately. Children pulled from rubble. Families burned in their homes. Whole neighborhoods erased, then explained away by men in suits. It made me wonder where this came … Read more

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

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