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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Explore the intricacies of global politics, diplomacy, and international affairs. Here are my thoughts and analyses on international relations.
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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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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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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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...
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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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