Has Trump Become a Dictator? What the Evidence Shows, and What It Means for the World
I test the dictator claims against law, history and 2026 evidence: the Xi visit, the UN speech, the Iran war,...
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🤖Artificial Intelligence
Writing on AI as it actually shows up in the world — the policy and legal fights over how it's governed, and the tools and models I'm actually using.
Some of it's research-grade, some of it's just a review of whatever I tried this week.
🤖 A Journey Through Technology's Frontier
If there's one thing that's going to transform our world, it's AI. But the surprising part is that while AI is rapidly changing industries, many of us are never taught how it really works or its potential impact. We might hear bits and pieces from the media or a course, but often it's not enough to grasp the full picture.
Since diving into the world of AI over a decade ago, I've always been fascinated by its potential to revolutionise industries and everyday life. From simple automation to superintelligence, the possibilities seem endless, and that curiosity is what drove me to explore it in greater depth. See my full position on AI here.
PHP2Shell: How an AI-Assisted Discovery Pulled Governments Offline, and What It Means for Law and Global Security
Two critical flaws in the engine behind roughly three-quarters of identifiable websites forced governments, hospitals and some financial services offline....
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Character.AI’s Bankruptcy Was Foreseeable: What the Collapse of an AI Companion Giant Means
Character.AI has filed for Chapter 11 after a run of wrongful death and child safety claims. I set out why...
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Dating Apps, Loneliness and the Pipeline to Extremism
Dating apps borrowed ranking logic from chess and video games. What happens when that logic meets loneliness, recommender systems and...
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Abliteration.ai and the End of the Guardrail Assumption: What It Means for International Security
Abliteration.ai sells AI models with safety guardrails removed. An international security analysis of what it means for AI governance, law...
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Magnifica Humanitas: Reading Pope Leo XIV’s AI Encyclical
An AI governance researcher and international lawyer reads Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, on AI, autonomous weapons and...
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Disarmament Toolkit 2026: What UNRCPD Taught Me About Autonomous Weapons, and What It Wouldn’t Name
This is the second consecutive year I have sat through the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in...
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Autonomous Weapons Are Not the Moral Choice
Thomas X. Hammes argued in the Atlantic Council that fielding autonomous weapons is a moral imperative. The accountability record, the...
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The Governance Gap: UN’s 2026 Science and Technology Report
Every July, a fairly unglamorous document lands on the desks of UN Member State delegations. It has none of the...
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WAIC 2026: Shanghai’s Agentic AI Safety Forum
A close read of Concordia AI's Shanghai forum — where Bengio, Gill, and China's leading safety researchers mapped agentic AI's...
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When Algorithms Go to War: Inside the New Military-AI-Industrial Complex
A research analysis of the PAX and Privacy International report — from a Geneva conference room to the boardrooms of...
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The Algorithm’s Kill Chain: The Future of Military AI
As world leaders gathered in Geneva for the June 2026 Informal Exchange on AI in the Military Domain, a dark...
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