Avi Perera writing journal

📰 Writing

I like to write about things like AI, productivity, travel, and other stuff I'm interested in. Hopefully you'll find some of it interesting too.

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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...

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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The Wonderful World of Context

First of all, I don’t think you’ll find many people who would say everyone is literally equal in every regard....

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🌐International Relations (IR)

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...

The new colonisers in Bali and other South East Asian countries, including Thailand, group photo of viral racist white run club

The New Colonisers: How the Digital Nomad Economy Is Recolonising the Global South

Usually I don’t watch much YouTube these days, and I’m highly cautious and skeptical of what I do watch online....

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🌐International Relations (IR)

Four Objectives, Zero Wins: Mearsheimer’s Reckoning With America’s Iran War

John Mearsheimer's July 2026 assessment of the Iran war — four failed objectives, a lost Strait of Hormuz, a fracturing...

Avi Perera writes about when Algorithms Go to War

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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🌐International Relations (IR)

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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🛠️ Tools & Tech

Schema Sovereignty & AI Citations: Death of Blue Links

Page-one ranking is no longer about the top ten blue links—it is about winning generative AI citations. As search engines...

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🛠️ Tools & Tech

Parallelism Over Pixels: Why the Encoder-Free 12B and DiffusionGemma are Rebuilding the Developer Stack

Is your local hardware sitting underutilised? Sequential text generation is hit by a fundamental memory-bandwidth bottleneck. With the advent of...

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🌐International Relations (IR)

Inside the UN Playbook for Algorithmic Warfare

The speed of military AI is outstripping international law. The UNIDIR Scenario Compendium offers a practical blueprint for the era...

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🌐International Relations (IR)

The Ghost in the Code: Why Autonomous Weapons Defy Human Law

The rise of Autonomous Weapons Systems (AWS) marks a seismic shift to "algorithmic warfare." When machines independently decide who lives...

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