I write about AI and Geopolitics
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
Reframing Intelligence in the Age of Artificial Systems In June 2022, a Google engineer named Blake Lemoine told The Washington Post that the company’s language model, LaMDA, had come to life. “I recognize a person when I interact with one,” he said. “It doesn’t matter if they have a brain made of flesh or a … Read more
Why the Country With the Best Model May Still Lose There is a comfortable story Americans tell about the race for artificial intelligence. In that story, the contest is a sprint, the finish line is the most powerful model, and the United States is winning. The story is not wrong, exactly. By most public measures, … Read more
A Strategic Declaration of Independence The UAE’s OPEC exit is not a commercial dispute but a strategic declaration of independence from the Saudi-led regional order, timed to exploit maximum geopolitical disruption. On April 28, 2026, with senior Gulf officials gathered in Riyadh for an emergency summit on the Iran war, the United Arab Emirates announced … Read more
Pope Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas argues that artificial intelligence is not just a technical innovation but a moral, social, and political force powerful enough to reshape labor, warfare, education, and human self-understanding. By linking AI to the industrial upheavals that prompted Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum, the new encyclical places the Church squarely inside one of … Read more