I write about AI and Geopolitics
Who Will Actually Regulate American AI? Democrats are projected to have won both chambers of Congress in the 2026 midterms, and President Trump has already signaled how he intends to meet them. “They’ll send over things that are insane and I’ll veto them,” he said in a Fox News interview after the election (November 4, … Read more
How automated compromise mapping and manufactured evidence could turn ambiguity into coercion, and what institutions can do about it. Public debate about AI and geopolitics has centered on the visible surface of the problem: fabricated videos, cloned voices, bot networks. These are real harms, but they mostly target publics, and publics have always been easy … Read more
Frontier AI developers publish safety frameworks to explain how they assess dangerous capabilities and what they will do when those capabilities emerge. But a framework’s familiar name can outlast the commitments that gave it meaning. The question is not simply whether a company has a safety policy. It is whether outsiders can tell when that … Read more
On Hinton, Containment, and the Loss of Leverage I. The Claim, and Why It Misses In October 2026, Geoffrey Hinton told The Telegraph that AI has become conscious. “AI has just as much subjective experience as we do,” he said, citing a paper showing that models change behavior when they believe they are being tested. … Read more
I think dissatisfaction is a double-edged sword. It may be our greatest engine of progress, but it can also keep us from appreciating the present. That tension makes it important to examine our aspirations carefully. We can’t just ask whether we can build a bridge; we have to ask where it will take us. We … Read more