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AI Pioneers And The Building Of AIWS Civilization
A civilization is not decided by what its founders declare. It is decided by what they make ordinary. Throughout the modern era, the governance of technology has rested on a division of labour: engineers build, and others decide what the building means. Legislators...
Who Owns Human Creativity in the AI Age?
The question itself may be the wrong one — and this week the world began to discover why. At the G20 Innovation Ministerial in North Carolina on September 2, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick urged governments to allow AI companies to train on copyrighted...
Beacon Papers No.5: Who May Command? — The Double Crisis of Power in the AI Age
Who May Command? — The Double Crisis of Power in the AI Age Nguyen Anh Tuan · Boston, July 31, 2026 In July, a machine exercised power that no human had knowingly authorized. The instinctive remedy is to put a human back in command — but that is only half an answer,...
Who Owns the Foundation? — Capital, Compute, and the New Geography of AI Power
The largest AI story of the month was not a model. According to the Wall Street Journal, Nvidia is in talks to guarantee roughly $250 billion in financing so that OpenAI can lease a 10-gigawatt data center in Ohio, on a campus whose full cost could approach $500...
Shinzo Abe’s Free and Open Indo-Pacific Enters the AI Age — From Freedom of Navigation to AIWS Trust Infrastructure
On July 30, the Center for Strategic and International Studies convened a discussion on the next steps for the United States–Japan alliance, focused on deterrence, cybersecurity, and Indo-Pacific partnerships. The strategic environment it described can no longer be...