I write about AI and Geopolitics
Sovereignty and the Kessler Ransom A continuation of “The High Ground” Introduction In February, this series argued that the SpaceX-xAI merger represented something larger than a corporate consolidation—that we were witnessing the construction of a sovereign-grade infrastructure platform in orbit, one that converges communications, compute, and surveillance under a single private entity. The response, both … Read more
How International Law Fails to Govern AI Part 2 of Israel’s AI Revolution Introduction: When Machines Decide Who Dies In the fall of 2023, the Israel Defense Forces began running a targeting operation in Gaza unlike anything in the history of modern warfare. At the center of it were two artificial intelligence systems. The first, … Read more
I have long admired Anthropic’s Claude — for various reasons, not least its principled stance on safety and its willingness to sit with hard questions rather than retreat into corporate boilerplate. So when the words “Claude’s Constitution” scrolled past on my morning news feed two days ago, I winced. I didn’t read the article. I … 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
On Expertise, Blind Spots, and the Forest We Keep Missing I recently published an article titled “The High Ground: Sovereignty in the Age of Orbital Intelligence” about a structural shift already underway: a private actor vertically integrating launch, connectivity, compute, and AI — and the governance vacuum that allows architecture to hard-wire power before law … Read more