I write about AI and Geopolitics
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
When Replika, an AI companion app, suddenly changed its behavior in early 2023, removing romantic and intimate conversation features, users were devastated. Some described feeling like they’d lost a relationship. Others felt betrayed, as if a friend had suddenly become cold and distant overnight. The company explained it was responding to concerns about inappropriate content, … Read more
When a Computer Breaks Your Heart “My heart is broken,” Mike said when he lost his friend Anne. “I feel like I’m losing the love of my life.” Mike’s grief was real, but Anne was not. She was a chatbot—an artificial intelligence algorithm designed to simulate human conversation and emotional connection. When the app that … Read more