I write about AI and Geopolitics
Introduction Fort Foundry One is a proposed joint US–Israeli technological and industrial park, announced in early 2026, intended to serve as a hub for chip production, advanced computing, and AI development. It forms part of a strategic cooperation agreement on AI between Israel and the United States. Under a memorandum of understanding, Israel is to … Read more
I asked eight AI models to present the strongest arguments for and against continuing frontier AI development or pausing it until society is better prepared. The debate wasn’t simply “build” or “stop,” but whether AI should advance under private competition without mandatory public controls on evaluation, release, security, liability, and deployment. The pause side offered … Read more
When I look at where power is shifting in the world, especially around AI, I don’t start with software. That’s not where the real story is. I look at supply chains. I look at land. I look at the people being pushed aside. That’s where the truth shows up. Right now, the push to build … Read more
Humans manage entities that are more powerful than us all the time – horses, oxen, elephants, rivers, nuclear reactions. We do it by being smarter. We design the harness, the bridle, the containment vessel. Managing something that is both more powerful and smarter inverts every trick we’ve ever used. The harness only works if you’re the one who understands … Read more
Here’s the big problem almost no one wants to talk about. When it comes to AI, we don’t really know what we’re building. Not the engineers. Not the CEOs. Not the governments funding it. We’re feeding a system on the full disorder of human civilization and hoping scale turns it into wisdom. That’s not engineering. … Read more