Frontier
Notes on emerging technologies and their institutional implications, with a focus on artificial intelligence.
Notes on emerging technologies and what happens when they encounter real institutional constraints.
Focus: the friction between technical capability and governance, accountability, and organisational readiness.
Notes on AI systems, governance, and application in institutional contexts.
- The accountability satisfies the citizen, not the agent Agentic AI promises to transform government. But in a system built on explainability and open government, where every decision must be traceable and attributed, where does the agent end and the bureaucrat begin?
Notes on quantum computing, post-quantum cryptography, and the institutional consequences of cryptographic transitions.
- The Ciphertext Outlives Its Key Nine years ago I asked whether quantum computing would eventually kill Bitcoin. The same question, asked today about a national genetic database, has none of the qualities that made the original speculative.