Geopolitics
The AI Crucible: How Digital Alchemy is Shattering the Chemical Weapons Convention and Why Only a Post-Westphalian Vision Can Save Us
AI's application in chemistry presents a profound dual-use dilemma, offering immense power to accelerate drug discovery and disarmament goals while simultaneously enabling the rapid, unregulated design of novel chemical weapons that can bypass existing international treaties. This represents a new frontier of asymmetric warfare, dangerously lowering the barrier for catastrophic harm and demanding a fundamental evolution of global governance structures away from the outdated, imperialist-controlled paradigms towards frameworks that prioritize collective human security under the leadership of the global south.
