I write about AI and Geopolitics
I’ve been watching the current buildout of UHVDC—the ultra-high-voltage lines designed to move massive amounts of electricity across continents—and AI data centers, and I keep coming back to a couple of questions: Are these two things building a virtuous cycle that pays for the grid of the future? Or are they locking us into a … Read more
A Better Path to AGI Before It’s Too Late Here’s the big problem no one wants to talk about: When it comes to AI, no one knows exactly what we’re building. Not the engineers. Not the CEOs. Not the governments funding it. We are feeding a system on the full disorder of human civilization and … Read more
Here’s what I’m wrestling with—and why it matters beyond AI policy circles: In early July 2026, I asked thirteen frontier AI models two structured questions. The first was simple: is the world prepared for artificial general intelligence (systems that could match or surpass humans across many tasks) across six dimensions—technical infrastructure, regulation, safety and alignment … 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
The Iron Curtain, the Digital Slave, and the Fate of Humanity I’ve been thinking a lot lately about where we are heading with artificial intelligence. It feels like we are standing at a precipice, and the ground is shifting under our feet. If the twentieth century was defined by who controlled uranium and plutonium, the … Read more