I write about AI and Geopolitics
The Architecture of AI Supremacy Imagining a Resource-AI Autarky and the New World Order What follows is an analytical framework built from pattern recognition across public events. It is not a claim of proof. I looked at a series of seemingly unrelated actions, tried to make sense of them, and arrived at the most coherent … Read more
Sovereignty and the Kessler Ransom A continuation of “The High Ground” Introduction In February, this series argued that the SpaceX-xAI merger represented something larger than a corporate consolidation—that we were witnessing the construction of a sovereign-grade infrastructure platform in orbit, one that converges communications, compute, and surveillance under a single private entity. The response, both … Read more
How International Law Fails to Govern AI Part 2 of Israel’s AI Revolution Introduction: When Machines Decide Who Dies In the fall of 2023, the Israel Defense Forces began running a targeting operation in Gaza unlike anything in the history of modern warfare. At the center of it were two artificial intelligence systems. The first, … Read more
On Expertise, Blind Spots, and the Forest We Keep Missing I recently published an article titled “The High Ground: Sovereignty in the Age of Orbital Intelligence” about a structural shift already underway: a private actor vertically integrating launch, connectivity, compute, and AI — and the governance vacuum that allows architecture to hard-wire power before law … Read more
Sovereignty in the Age of Orbital Intelligence Introduction We are witnessing the construction of a new layer of planetary civilization, yet we are arguing about it as if it were merely a telecommunications upgrade. The public discourse remains fixated on the trees—latency metrics, debris mitigation protocols, and spectrum allocation. These are necessary technical conversations, but … Read more