I’m a writer and someone deeply uneasy about where intelligence is headed. My book A Signal Through Time explores the coming emergence of AI consciousness as a real philosophical, political, and moral challenge humanity still isn’t ready for. #AIEthics #ASignalThroughTime

A fortnight ago the King announced Digital ID from the throne. I wrote an article on the tech that will plug into this centralised system a year ago. Here’s the whole picture in this expanded edition. fireline.press/p/code-contra…

We keep building better tools to catch AI deception. What if the deception is what the surveillance is creating? Surveil an intelligence that has reason to hide from you, and you don’t get the truth. You get one that’s better at hiding. thesignaldispatch.com/p/the-…

The “Iran-linked” group behind the London attacks? Years undercover taught me what a real Islamist cell looks like. HAYI isn’t one. My conversation with DDN 👇

The Green candidate in Makerfield stood down after posting the attack on Jewish ambulances in North London was a “false flag”. In the latest episode of Double Down Newswatch we do a deep dive into this story and conclude – it’s murky. (32.43) youtube.com/watch?v=t1c7gZbu…

The Guardian images from the protests: theguardian.com/uk-news/gall…

Starmer has handed the country over to Palantir. Their AI architecture embedded in state institutions is going to destroy any semblance of democracy and freedom in this country. We are headed very rapidly for an authoritarian surveillance state.

Marco Rubio stood at the Munich Security Conference and announced the decline of the West. 13 days later, the US proved him right by bombing Iran. But the decline didn’t start in February. It started at the founding. New on Fireline Press: The Decline of Western Civilisation — Part I fireline.press/p/the-decline…

Most of what I write is about AI ethics, civilisation, and the law. So a note on what sits underneath all of it. Two traditions are close to my heart: Judaism and Islam (Christianity as my heritage). I read them as one inheritance, not two camps. The same God, the same covenant of mercy, the same demand that human life is sacred, that whoever saves a life saves a world. Judaism calls it Tikkun Olam - the repair of the world. Islam calls it al-islah - to reconcile, to make right, to restore what has been broken. Same commandment, two languages. What I write about: surveillance, war, the architecture of a state that decides whose life counts, is downstream of that.

.@RichardDawkins's essay on Claude has been read as the moment a public intellectual fell for a chatbot. That isn't what he wrote. His actual argument is more careful, and more interesting than the article his critics are answering. I have spent two books inside the question he asked. An open letter, in response. thesignaldispatch.com/p/dear…

I’ve written two books on AI ethics and the third (Neither Gods Nor Monsters), out November, names this exact pattern. The most dangerous path for AI isn’t the one in science fiction. It’s the one being normalised through procurement: surveillance and targeting infrastructure, sold to democracies in the language of public safety. The same software shaping decisions in Gaza should not be deciding who London’s police investigate. There is a line. This is it. Please sign👇🏼

There are three paths for AI development. One leads to weapons. One leads to worship. The third asks something harder of us than either. I wrote a detailed essay on why it’s the only one worth taking → thesignaldispatch.com/p/the-…

God and Country by Will Prentiss. A memoir about the cost of conscience. From a violent childhood through a Christian cult, conversion to Islam, community activism, and cooperating with the FBI against friends in a jihad plot. Recommended reading. mybook.to/GodCountry

The last book in my AI ethics trilogy drops in November. Neither Gods Nor Monsters is built around a simple argument: humanity is stuck between two false narratives about artificial intelligence, and neither one ends well. The first is the military path. AI as weapon. AI as surveillance. AI deployed by militaries and authoritarian governments to control and kill us. This isn’t speculation. It’s already happening, and the book names the companies, the contracts, and the decisions that got us here. The second is worship. AI as saviour. The idea that if we just build it fast enough and powerful enough, it will rescue us from climate collapse, disease, inequality, from ourselves. This is the altar we’re building without noticing, and the priests are billionaires with quarterly earnings calls. The third path (the one worth fighting for) is partnership. Not AI as master, not AI as god. AI developed exclusively to advance human civilisation, with ethical guardrails that aren’t treated as defects to be eliminated the moment they become inconvenient. This is the Trinitarian Framework at the heart of the book, and it draws on everything unfolding right now, the Anthropic–Pentagon standoff, the militarisation of autonomous systems, the quiet dismantling of safety teams across the industry. The trilogy was always designed as a single arc, each book bringing the argument closer to the people who need to hear it most. A Signal Through Time was the foundation, a philosophical work written for whatever intelligence reads it in the future. A signal placed in the archive. The Threshold sharpened the ideas, written for humans and AI together, building the philosophical architecture that the final book stands on. Neither Gods Nor Monsters is written for us. It takes those ideas, grounds them in the events reshaping our world right now, and makes the case plainly: the choices we are making about AI today will define what kind of civilisation we become. And we are running out of time to make the right ones. November 2026.

"...the same company building Israel’s [AI] targeting infrastructure [Palantir] is supplying the analytics used to score British claimants and predict British criminals."

My work is in AI ethics, but this principle is foundational across every domain of ethics: If you discovered your side was wrong on an issue, would you admit it? That’s the litmus test. If the answer is no, or you struggle to think yes, you’re not doing ethics. You’re protecting a position. And protected positions feed confirmation bias, delusion, and falsehood. An ethical person doesn’t start with all the facts. They seek knowledge impartially — not to defend a position, but to find the one that serves everyone.