Forthcoming.
AI balance of power: human or machine?
This forthcoming abstract will explore plausible scenarios for how frontier AI labs, governments, Societies and human communities might be impacted by the emergence and evolution of the technology's proto-State features, fundamentally defined by its hyper-violence capabilities; and will raise the crucial question of what the balance of power means in a geopolitical arena where human-ruled AI systems smarter than humans might compete for survival with AI-ruled AI systems.
18 April 2026
Is political security a critical AI research theme?
This abstract (shared 16 April and published on LinkedIn 18 April 2026) proposes political security as a fourth pillar of AI security research. Frontier AI labs already exhibit proto-State features: triple-digit revenue growth, $27M generated per employee (≈338× the average American worker), and battle-tested technology now reshaping the speed of warfare. Yet political security — preparing for the State to take what it does not own — seems missing from the standard AI security toolkit. If "America First" meets the Department of War's "AI-First" doctrine, why would a hegemon tolerate permanent private control of capabilities that surpass its own?
23 June 2023
Why AI should be a national security priority globally
This abstract (Shared with peers and AI insiders on 23 June 2023, and published here on 7 May 2026) argues AI must become a national security priority globally so States can build enforceable regimes against catastrophic risks. Five signals already converge: industry insiders warning of existential threat, governments — bar the USA and China — losing the compute and talent race to private firms, those same insiders unaware of full capabilities, exponential development inside a regulatory void, and philosophy reemerging as fundamental to policy. If transformative AI is more political than technological, why would States tolerate a global regulatory void over civilization-shaping technology?
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