I write about AI and Geopolitics
Weaponizing Friction and the Blueprint of the Durable Person If you just read the last essay and felt a cold, deep dread, you’re not wrong. That feeling of being stuck isn’t a failure on your part. It’s exactly what the system wants. When we face a huge, automated system, we can feel small. It’s too … Read more
We Don’t Want to Miss This I want us to slow down. Not just to avoid danger, but so we don’t accidentally build something smaller than this moment allows. Please allow me to explain. The usual case for slowing down is framed as a warning about danger. That warning is necessary — but incomplete. But … Read more
AI, geography, and the exposed infrastructure of the new intelligence age Part 5 examined the return of borders. It established that when shared protection fails, states retreat into sovereign stacks, data localization mandates, and competing compute blocs. That essay was about control. This one is about entanglement. Because even as borders harden, the infrastructure beneath … Read more
AI, geography, and the exposed infrastructure of the new intelligence age Part 4 examined the protection gap and established that commercial AI infrastructure has outpaced the legal, military, and diplomatic frameworks needed to defend it. That essay was about doctrine. This one is about borders. When shared protection fails, states retreat into national control. The … Read more
The emerging debate over the so-called “Compute Mirage,” also described as the “LLM Mirage,” highlights a critical concern: the amount of compute used to train frontier large language models (LLMs) has become an overly convenient, yet potentially misleading, proxy for assessing AI security risk. The appeal of this metric is understandable; compute is quantifiable, easily … Read more