AI, War, and the Geometry of Power
Speed, Sovereignty, and the Political Choice We Cannot Avoid
From the essay
Military AI will not wait for moral consensus. If responsible democracies hesitate, less constrained regimes will not. The choice is not between AI and no AI—it is between AI shaped by accountable systems or AI shaped by those who answer to no one. First, simulation is not sovereignty. Escalation behavior inside constrained wargames can be diagnostically useful, but it does not constitute evidence that states are delegating irreversible authority to machines. Technology expands capacity. Institutions determine responsibility. The right response is accelerated capability under hardened governance, coupled with international leverage that makes unconstrained autonomy costly.