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Behind the scenes of our new scenario, Southwest Silicon
One of the best parts of running a game studio and policy shop here at Riskgaming at Lux Capital is the actual public launch of a new game. That day is today, because we are dropping Southwest Silico…
Published on 9 hours ago
How compute and AI will create next-gen superapps
The launch of OpenAI’s GPT-5 has ushered in a panoply of views on the future of AGI and end-user applications. Does the platform’s aggressive router presage a future of lobotomized AI responses drive…
Published on 1 week ago
America’s degrowth lawyers need to learn from China
It’s fun to play a game of superlatives with China. From the awe-inspiring and cyberpunk scale of the metro trains cruising through apartment blocks in Chongqing to the stupendous rate of its shipbui…
Published on 2 weeks ago
The CIA in the 21st Century
Few agencies have been more central to global affairs than the aptly-named Central Intelligence Agency. Often shrouded in mystique both cultivated and unasked for, the agency has been at the center o…
Published on 3 weeks ago
The challenges of complex risks in game design
Building great Riskgaming scenarios is far more of an art than science. The designer needs to understand the players — what they know and what they don’t — and then carefully construct a landscape of…
Published on 4 weeks ago
Intel, chips and America’s future
By now, we’re all familiar with the crisis that has faced America’s chip manufacturing industry. Intel remains the last bastion of homegrown chips (if we exempt new developments from TSMC and Samsung…
Published on 1 month ago
What’s next for European defense autonomy
There has been a massive influx of defense funding into Europe since Putin’s war on Ukraine started in early 2022. A sea change is underway, with Germany loosening its debt brake and countries from P…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
The future of science in an age of spending cuts
Science feels under attack. The Trump administration has proposed budget cuts of up to one-third of all basic research funding, breaking a generations-long, bipartisan consensus that what is good for…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Can AI teach us critical thinking?
AI and education seem like a match made in heaven, and certainly, much work and dollars are being spent trying to bring the two together. As more and more people eschew reading and outsource deep tho…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Finding a Third Way on the AI singularity
Our guest today, Mike Sexton, believes that the AI singularity has arrived, and somehow, it ended up “on page C3 in the newspaper.” What he’s getting at is that the tools we have at our fingertips to…
Published on 2 months ago