Elif Davutoğlu
AI companies often present their technologies as politically neutral. But as frontier models become intertwined with national security strategies, neutrality is giving way to a new reality: AI as a core instrument of state power, writes Elif Davutoğlu Read more
Soumi Banerjee
Tech leaders compare AI’s electricity demand to the energy needed to ‘train a human’. In doing so, they judge people and server racks by the same dehumanising efficiency metric. Soumi Banerjee and Mo Hamza explain how this logic is most brutally realised in planetary AI supply chains; in the hidden work that makes 'intelligent' machines seem autonomous Read more
James Rice
New technologies demand a shift toward a broader framework of digital resilience. Misinformation threatens to deepen inequality and fragment access to common knowledge. James Rice argues that digital resilience depends upon strategic interventions spanning digital infrastructure, international institutions, and citizen psychology Read more
Michal Malý
Michal Malý and Asker Bryld Staunæs argue that synthetic dissidents mark a new form of opposition politics. In authoritarian regimes, AI avatars and chatbots can propagate risky speech without exposing a single, identifiable speaker. This can protect journalists and activists, but it also changes how responsibility, authenticity and repression work Read more
Nadeem Ahmed Moonakal
The Middle East is entering a phase of recalibration. As Gulf powers prioritise stability and de-escalation, says Nadeem Ahmed Moonakal, they are also positioning themselves to play a leading role in global AI, which is likely to have a profound influence on the regional geopolitical landscape Read more
Mimi Mihăilescu
The Dead Internet Theory, once dismissed as 'paranoid fantasy', now offers a disturbingly useful framework for understanding digital politics. Mimi Mihăilescu argues that the theory's growing credibility masks deeper questions about whether we're overestimating AI's political power while underestimating our willingness to accept technological determinism Read more
Jamie Withorne
Technology is not a cure-all. But it can help reduce the risk of nuclear weapons crises. Jamie Withorne shows how increasingly accessible information can harness transparency and 'fact check' the credibility of nuclear threats Read more
Jason Tucker
The promise of revolutionary advances in healthcare is not a mainstay of the EU’s artificial intelligence policies. Jason Tucker explores how the outcomes of the EU’s instrumentalisation of healthcare in the AI race doesn't look good for the waning political legitimacy of the EU Read more
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