AI Governance & Accountability

The Quantum Variable Why Policy Must Anticipate Convergence Before It Accelerates Beyond Control Artificial intelligence is advancing rapidly. Quantum computing is advancing more slowly, but steadily. Each technology alone presents governance challenges. Together, they may alter the trajectory of technological power in ways existing policy frameworks are not designed to manage. The convergence of advanced … Read more

The genie is out of the bottle. Artificial intelligence is no longer theoretical. It is deployed, scaled, integrated into economic systems, and accelerating. The relevant question is no longer whether AI should exist. It does. The relevant question is how we proceed. There are two unhelpful extremes in the public conversation. One insists that AI … Read more

Artificial intelligence is advancing at a pace that would have seemed implausible a decade ago. Systems now draft legal briefs, discover drug candidates, generate software, and outperform humans in complex games once thought to require uniquely human cognition. It is not unreasonable to imagine that within a generation, AI systems could exceed human capabilities across … Read more

Scaling Frontier AI Under the Irreversible Agency Standard Humanity is confronting two profound risks: climate destabilization and the rapid advance of artificial intelligence toward systems that may exceed human cognitive capacity in strategically critical domains. Both demand seriousness. Both demand coordinated governance. But they are not structurally identical risks. Climate change threatens the stability of … Read more

How the Collapse of Global Order Threatens Humanity’s Most Critical Transition Bill Friend  •  February 9, 2026 The erosion of international law is happening “before the eyes of the world, on our screens, live in 4K.” Those are not the words of an activist or a dissident. They are the words of the Secretary-General of … Read more