In our fifth episode of Transrational Perspectives, we focus on moral understandings of peace.

Another set of fears surrounding A.I. stems not from the technology itself, but from the ways in which it may be pursued. The financial, military and political incentives make an A.I. “arms race” seem inevitable, as countries, companies and other actors compete to be t...

In our fourth episode of Transrational Perspectives, we focus on energetic understandings of peace.

At its core A.I will be a deeply transformative technology. Current fears about the future development of A.I. come from the intersections of models of predicting the future, the limitations of those models and our own projections onto technologies.

Much of the discussi...

This third episode of Transrational Perspectives focuses on the development of the field of Peace and Conflict Studies, its relationship to Postmodernism and the development of the "Many Peaces" approach to Peace Studies. 

In the past, humans turned new technologies into weapons. Given the strategic advantages A.I. possesses, we can predict that someone will use A.I. as a weapon. This presents a  security paradox:  a sense of insecurity occurs because of what we assume to be the future a...

In this second episode of Transrational Perspectives, Shawn and I discuss what brought us to the field of Peace Studies and some of the key factors that have shaped our perspectives. 

Announcing the release of the first episode of Transrational Perspectives. On this channel we will be exploring some of the fundamental questions in the field and practice of Peace and Conflict Studies. In this first episode we introduce the channel itself and our futu...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has garnered the popular imagination, though no one knows if it represents a technological utopia, a coming apocalypse or a new and improved way of selling stuff.

A casual search of recent headlines in just the past few hours shows that curr...

I was eight years old the first time I considered the end of the world. In Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Sarah Connor sees a vision of a mushroom cloud and the explosion sets her alight. She is reduced to a skeleton on a playground. This idea that in a moment everything...