Essays about artificial intelligence, geopolitics, infrastructure control, and technology power dynamics.
Voicing my suspicions about what India is actually building Why I keep returning to this For months I have had the same nagging feeling whenever I read another headline about India. The headlines come in fragments: a port here, a chip subsidy there, a sovereign language model, a cable inaugurated, a summit convened. Each piece … Read more
AI, geography, and the exposed infrastructure of the new intelligence age Part 3 examined compute as critical infrastructure. It established that AI workloads have crossed the threshold from commercial service to public-risk utility. That essay was about continuity. This one is about doctrine. Because once infrastructure is critical, its protection requires rules, not just redundancy. … Read more
AI, geography, and the exposed infrastructure of the new intelligence age Part 2 examined the chokepoints. It established that AI capacity concentrates through narrow physical, logistical, and legal funnels that convert geography into leverage. That essay was about bottlenecks. This one is about systemic risk. Because once those bottlenecks tighten, the infrastructure they feed ceases … Read more
Acknowledging the people behind the AI curtain Artificial intelligence is usually sold as a miracle of software. It is cleaner than that, shinier than that, and more comfortable than that. But behind the polished interface is a global workforce of people who label, rank, sort, filter, clean, moderate, and evaluate the material that makes modern … Read more
COVID, Algorithmic Intimacy, and the New Infrastructure of Dependence COVID did not invent the AI era. That is worth saying plainly, because the timeline matters. Neural networks, cloud platforms, recommender systems, voice assistants, logistics algorithms, medical models, surveillance tools, and automated decision systems were already here before the virus arrived. The machinery had been built. … Read more