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Digital Control and AI

Follow the infrastructure, institutions and automated systems shaping artificial intelligence, surveillance and digital power.

AI and Cyber-Offense: When the Hacker Is a Machine

Anthropic and OpenAI now routinely catch state and criminal groups using AI agents to run cyberattacks with less and less human involvement — but the evidence for how autonomous those attacks really are comes mostly from the AI vendors themselves.

AI and Autonomous Weapons: Who Pulls the Trigger When the Machine Decides?

AI-assisted targeting systems in Gaza and AI-guided strike drones in Ukraine are already compressing the human review that policy says must remain in the loop.

AI and Critical Infrastructure: Who’s Guarding the Systems We Depend On?

AI is being layered onto the water, power and financial systems people rely on to survive, faster than the government’s own risk-assessment process for it has matured.

AI and the Bioweapon Threshold: What the Safety Reports Actually Show

A researcher uses a multichannel pipette to dispense reagents into a 96-well plate inside a biosafety cabinet.

Anthropic disrupted five biology-related AI misuse cases in eight months. Examine what the safety reports, benchmarks and policy record actually establish – and what they don’t.

AI, Nuclear Risk and the Shrinking Decision Window

AI-generated conceptual illustration of an anonymous person facing converging streams of data and a clock-like circle.

Can AI increase nuclear risk without controlling launch? Examine decision time, false warnings, human oversight and the evidence behind the escalation debate.

Can We Control AI That Outthinks Us?

AI-generated conceptual illustration of a lone operator at a console facing an immense illuminated computational lattice.

AI superintelligence, insider warnings and real safety failures: examine what the evidence shows about alignment, recursive self-improvement and human control.

The AI Power Race: Who Wins, Who Pays?

AI-generated conceptual illustration of data centres, power lines and water infrastructure rising from an ordinary household laptop

Who benefits from the AI power race? Explore AGI, corporate control, chatbot costs, jobs, electricity and water – and what ordinary people really gain.

Inside the Pentagon–Anthropic Standoff Over AI Mass Surveillance

Illustrative aerial view of a five-sided defence complex divided from an AI surveillance network by a red boundary line

How a Pentagon contract clause over AI mass surveillance and autonomous weapons triggered a $200M standoff — and what it means for Section 702.

AI Compute: The Cloud Chokepoint

Massive hyperscale data centres and power infrastructure illustrating the concentration of compute resources required to train and operate advanced artificial intelligence systems.

AI compute cloud chokepoint is the hidden infrastructure layer behind modern artificial intelligence. The public sees models, chatbots, apps, and safety debates. Underneath, the real power increasingly sits with the organisations that control chips, cloud capacity, hyperscale data centres, energy access, and deployment infrastructure.

Open Source AI vs Closed Infrastructure

A lone figure stands at a crossroads between two contrasting AI futures: an open, collaborative technological ecosystem represented by transparent digital networks and shared innovation on one side, and a heavily controlled infrastructure dominated by restricted access, surveillance systems, corporate barriers, and centralised power on the other.

Open source AI is often presented as the democratic counterweight to closed corporate control. But the deeper question is whether open model weights matter if compute, cloud hosting, chips, distribution, app stores, APIs, and safety approval channels remain concentrated.

AI in Benefits, Hiring, Housing, and Insurance

People navigating employment, housing, insurance, and public services while artificial intelligence systems analyze applications, risk scores, and eligibility decisions in the background.

AI in benefits hiring housing and insurance is no longer an abstract governance issue. It is the layer where automated systems can influence work, money, homes, healthcare support, risk scoring, fraud checks, and access to essential services.

Defense Contractors and Civilian AI Procurement

AI procurement can move defense, intelligence, and contractor logic into civilian systems. This file tracks how public-sector AI power is bought.

AI procurement is where public-sector artificial intelligence becomes real. The public may debate laws and ethics, but agencies often adopt AI through contracts, cloud services, vendor frameworks, pilots, analytics dashboards, and outsourced technical systems.