- The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.
Stephen Hawking
Astrology and racism run on the same cognitive engine: sorting people into fixed categories by something they never chose. Here’s the evidence.
An AI governance researcher and international lawyer reads Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, on AI, autonomous weapons and truth.
When Xi Jinping told Donald Trump that “the Thucydides Trap can be overcome,” he was not offering diplomatic small talk. He was issuing a carefully calibrated statement about the trajectory…
This is the second consecutive year I have sat through the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific’s flagship course, the Disarmament Toolkit, first…
Thomas X. Hammes argued in the Atlantic Council that fielding autonomous weapons is a moral imperative. The accountability record, the current state of the Geneva talks and recent warnings from AI researchers suggest otherwise.
Every July, a fairly unglamorous document lands on the desks of UN Member State delegations. It has none of the drama of a Security Council resolution or the visibility of…
First of all, I don’t think you’ll find many people who would say everyone is literally equal in every regard. Usually, when people say all races are equal, they’re talking…
A close read of Concordia AI’s Shanghai forum — where Bengio, Gill, and China’s leading safety researchers mapped agentic AI’s loss-of-control risk, and why it should worry LAWS watchers too.
Usually I don’t watch much YouTube these days, and I’m highly cautious and skeptical of what I do watch online. However this video by Moon called “Bali: Everything Wrong With…
John Mearsheimer’s July 2026 assessment of the Iran war — four failed objectives, a lost Strait of Hormuz, a fracturing Gulf alliance, and a war Washington can’t afford to keep fighting.
A research analysis of the PAX and Privacy International report — from a Geneva conference room to the boardrooms of Silicon Valley
As world leaders gathered in Geneva for the June 2026 Informal Exchange on AI in the Military Domain, a dark reality solidified: technology is outstripping international law. From tech giants abandoning their ethical pledges to algorithmic target generation outpacing human cognitive capacity, the “automation of violence” is reshaping global conflict. Discover the five uncomfortable truths defining the future of autonomous warfare.