I write about AI and Geopolitics
Bill Friend Supporting AI’s development does not mean suspending judgment about its costs. In an age of climate anxiety, societies are being asked to accept a great many things on faith. Build more transmission. Build more batteries. Build more solar. Build more nuclear. Build more cooling. Build more computation. Much of that may in fact be necessary. … Read more
Why Ignorance Isn’t Passive—It’s Political Geopolitics is usually explained through the visible tools of power: armies, sanctions, trade routes, energy supplies, borders, and alliances. Those things matter. But another force at work in world affairs gets far less attention than it should: the social power of looking away. When a population gets used to not … Read more
People throw around the phrase “corporations are people” so often that it has started to sound almost meaningless. But my concern is not the slogan itself. My concern is what follows from it when power begins to concentrate in the executive branch. If the government can treat a corporation as a rights-bearing legal person when … Read more
Many of you might think I’m crazy, but please hear me out first. I might not be crazy; I might just be seeing things! Trust Besides yourself, who do you trust with the important people, places, and things in your life? In a world where people feel more isolated than in decades past, and loneliness … Read more
Autonomous weapons are reshaping warfare faster than diplomats can respond—here’s why a global ban remains elusive as of late March 2026. Introduction In March 2020, a Kargu-2 drone, deployed by Libyan government forces, hunted down and attacked a human target without any human operator pulling the trigger. A subsequent report by the United Nations Security … Read more