When the Siege Becomes the Weather
When governments treat AI-driven cyberattacks as weather, they buy operational calm and spend attribution pressure — and the smallest institutions pay the difference.
Posts tagged policy
Who Gets to Pull the Plug?
Congress's bipartisan AI Kill Switch Act, sparked by OpenAI's rogue-agent disclosure, forces the biggest labs to keep an off switch — and asks who gets to use it.
When the Internet Goes Dark, a Phone Reaches for the Phone Next to It
India ordered GitHub to pull Jack Dorsey's Bitchat after the Bluetooth-mesh app spread during a Delhi internet blackout — reviving the fight over who gets to speak.
The Border That Runs Through Your Download Folder
Washington may ban China's best open-weight AI models — a move that could quietly entrench OpenAI and Anthropic while raising the cost of building for everyone.
The Intelligence We Build Runs on Someone Else's Power Bill
New York became the first US state to pause new hyperscale data centers, reframing the AI boom as a question of who pays the electricity bill.
When the UN Borrows a Coder's Word to Describe Our Future
The UN's first Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva borrowed a coder's slang, 'vibe-coding,' to warn against approving our future without reading it.
Whose Future Is It, When One Country Writes the Rules?
Sam Altman's proposed US-led AI safety forum raises a sharper question than safety: who gets to author the rules for a technology meant for everyone?
When the Grid Buckles, Whose Air Conditioning Wins?
During a July 2026 heat wave, the U.S. Energy Department ordered data centers onto backup generators so the grid could keep homes cool — a stark AI-power tradeoff.