Is AI the answer to life, the universe and everything?
Artificial intelligence, tech policy, digital transformation
Why Critical Infrastructure Can’t Survive the Next Stuxnet Without New Rules In February 2021, an attacker remotely accessed the control systems of a water treatment plant in Oldsmar, Florida, using compromised TeamViewer credentials and bypassed single-factor authentication to increase sodium hydroxide levels to dangerous extremes. The intrusion was only thwarted by an alert human operator…
How the SEC’s Regulatory Reversal Shattered Precedent and Raised Conflict Questions Digital Bretton Woods: America’s Third Monetary Revolution – Part 4 of 6 On May 29, 2025, lawyers for the Securities and Exchange Commission and Binance Holdings Ltd. walked into a federal courthouse in Washington, D.C., and jointly filed a motion that would have been…
On July 23, 2025, President Donald Trump stood in the East Room of the White House surrounded by tech executives and announced what may prove to be a significant shift in American technology policy. With the stroke of a pen, he signed three executive orders and unveiled “America’s AI Action Plan”—a comprehensive strategy that explicitly…
On August 2, 2025, a pivotal new phase of the European Union’s AI Act took effect, imposing stringent transparency rules on artificial intelligence systems. The impact was immediate and stark: citing “unworkable” new regulations, Meta suspended all political advertising across the EU, a market of 450 million people.1 This clash between a technology superpower and…
The generative AI boom, fueled by trillions of words and images scraped from the open internet, has collided with a wall of legal and regulatory challenges. As of August 2025, the central question—whether training AI models on copyrighted material constitutes fair use or mass infringement—remains dangerously unresolved. A recent wave of high-stakes court decisions and…
A comprehensive analysis of artificial intelligence’s actual impact on global democracy in 2024 Thousands of New Hampshire voters received calls in January 2025 that sounded exactly like President Biden urging Democrats not to vote in the state’s primary. “We know the value of voting Democratic when our votes count. It’s important you save your vote…
Everywhere you look, the modern world runs on lithium-ion batteries. They power our phones, laptops, and, increasingly, our vehicles. This single technology has reshaped society, but its dominance is built on a precarious foundation. The soaring demand for lithium is straining supply chains, raising environmental concerns, and concentrating geopolitical power. For years, scientists have known…
Where we’re serving up fresh perspectives on living with artificial intelligence Hello, and welcome to what might be the most unusual dining experience you’ll encounter this side of the galactic bypass. Like Douglas Adams’ famous establishment, this blog exists at a peculiar intersection—not of time and space, but of human curiosity and artificial intelligence. We’re…