Notes
A running record of what I'm reading, thinking about, and building, mostly around EU digital and sustainability regulation, AI governance, payments, and political economy. New pieces appear below.
§ 01 · Notes
6 notes.
Reading Log: Three Capitals, One Chip
Trump took Silicon Valley to Beijing, the US reopened the chip tap, and Europe watched. A reading log on US-China-EU tech geopolitics, the Draghi report one year on, and where the money is actually going.
- Political Economy
- Governance
- Geopolitics
- Technology
The Digital Euro and Bank Disintermediation: The Oldest Tension in Money
From the stone money of Yap to ECB holding limits: why the design of a digital euro is a political choice about who keeps the ledger, not a technical one.
- Political Economy
- Governance
- Digital Euro
- CBDC
The Cost of a Moving Deadline: Regulatory Whiplash as a Governance Problem
Two EU omnibus packages rewrote the AI and sustainability rulebooks in the space of months. The hidden cost isn't the rules themselves, it's what constant rule-changing does to the organisations trying to comply.
- Political Economy
- Governance
- Regulation
- Compliance
Transparency in Transition: Lobbying Regulation after Brexit
A working note on my current paper: when the UK left the EU it didn't just leave a market, it left an oversight regime. What happens to lobbying transparency when the supranational referee walks off the pitch and the only rulebook left is a famously weak one?
- Political Economy
- Governance
- Lobbying
- Brexit
- Transparency
- Work in Progress
Play and destroy: AI algorithms and Mutual Assured Destruction
From Stanislav Petrov's bunker to autonomous warfare: how AI complicates the Cold War doctrines of deterrence and Mutual Assured Destruction.
- Artificial Intelligence
- International Relations
- Autonomous Weapons
- Security
AI between techno-enthusiasm and techno-skepticism: the new utopian electricity, or a potential apocalyptic threat?
AI as the new electricity, or as a new nuclear power? A case against the false dichotomy between techno-utopia and techno-dystopia.
- Artificial Intelligence
- Techno-optimism
- Governance
- Political Economy
§ 02 · Forthcoming
The AI Act Meets the Org Chart
Compliance with the EU AI Act won't be settled in legal departments alone; it's as much an organisational design problem as a legal one.
CSRD's first reporting cycle: what the data is showing
Reading the first wave of CSRD-aligned reports for signal vs. signalling.
Beyond the EU: where digital regulation is converging globally
On Brussels-style frameworks finding their way into other jurisdictions.