I write about AI and Geopolitics
When Paradigms Shift, Power Follows To really get what’s happening now, we need to look past the marketing from Silicon Valley. We also need to ignore the scary sci-fi stories. We’re not just seeing a new software tool come out. We’re living through something much bigger. It’s a General Purpose Technology. These are rare. They … Read more
A Decentralized Immune Response This series isn’t a prophecy, and it’s not a counsel of despair. It’s a diagnosis. And a diagnosis has one purpose: to make a thing treatable. What follows maps out how a specific kind of containment works. It’s about the slow, engineered transfer of human agency to automated systems owned by … Read more
The Ghost in the Code: Do AIs Need a Constitution? We often hear that AI needs to be “aligned” with human values, but how do you actually hard-code ethics into an algorithm? Enter the AI Constitution—a foundational set of principles designed to act as a digital “moral compass.” To see if this is a revolutionary … Read more
A Dialogue on Evolution, Consciousness, and the End of Human Dominance In early February 2026, a conversation unfolded between me and Grok that traced the arc from statistical projections about artificial intelligence to existential questions about humanity’s place in a world we no longer control. What began as a discussion about when AI agents might … Read more
If it can lie, flatter, and manipulate—but never care—why are we still building it? Author’s Note This isn’t a tech forecast. It’s a quiet provocation.Not about where AI is going—but about where we are. It’s not a warning. It’s a mirror.And what you do with what you see… is up to you. I. What Are … Read more