If AI Predicts Attack with 85% Confidence, Must We Strike First? In 1983, a Soviet lieutenant colonel named Stanislav Petrov sat in a bunker watching a screen flash "MISSILE LAUNCH." The system told him the United States had fired five nuclear warheads. Petrov's training said to
When Citizens Are Strategic Infrastructure In November 2025, France and Germany convened a Summit on European Digital Sovereignty in Paris. The final declaration committed EU member states to strengthening digital sovereignty as "a cornerstone of economic resilience, social prosperity, competitiveness and security." A joint task force was launched
When AI systems act faster than institutions can think, accountability doesn't fail gradually — it fails structurally. There is a temporal assumption buried inside most institutional design. Courts deliberate. Regulators review. Parliaments debate. The pace of governance has always been slower than the pace of events — but the gap