Foundation Phantom MK-1 and MK-2
A forensic analysis of Foundation’s Phantom MK-1 and MK-2 military humanoid robots: specifications, Ukraine trials, autonomy claims, IHL, US law...
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📰 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.
ARCV MULE
A forensic analysis of the ARCV MULE, AeroArc’s Indian Army robot dog derived from the Ghost Robotics Vision 60: specifications,...
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Unitree B2 Combat Mod
A forensic analysis of the weaponised Unitree B2 quadruped: verified specifications, PLA and Marine Corps armed trials, autonomy, IHL, export...
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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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Vision 60 Q-UGV
A forensic technical and legal analysis of Ghost Robotics’ Vision 60 Q-UGV robot dog: specifications, armed variants, autonomy, IHL, exports...
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MQ-9 Reaper
A forensic technical and legal analysis of the MQ-9 Reaper: specifications, combat record, IHL, accountability, 2026 Iran war losses 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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Why Astrology Is a Form of Prejudice: The Same Bias in a Softer Costume
Astrology and racism run on the same cognitive engine: sorting people into fixed categories by something they never chose. Here's...
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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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The Thucydides Trap Returns: What Xi Told Trump in the Oval Office, and What Washington Chose Not to Hear
When Xi Jinping told Donald Trump that “the Thucydides Trap can be overcome,” he was not offering diplomatic small talk....
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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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