Writing
2026
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“From Incident to Intervention:
Preliminary Findings on How AI-Incident Data(bases) Are Used—And What Should Change”MIT AI Risk Initiative
Oct. 8, 2026
Co-authored with Simon Mylius & Peter Slattery -
“Research Radar: AI May Not Start Wars.
But It Is Changing What Wars Are Fought Over”Reboot Democracy
Jul. 7, 2026
Co-authored with Elana Banin, Emily Parker, Parul Wadhawan, Yan Zhu & Guillem Bas -
“No Agent’s Land: Sovereignty After the User — An Annotated Response to 10a Labs’ ‘When Agents Talk’”
Hugging Face
Jun. 12, 2026
Solo-authored essay and annotations -
“Allied Mettle, Allied Metals:
A Market-Based Playbook for Critical-Mineral Supply Chains”Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace at Stanford University
Feb. 20, 2026
Solo-authored
Recipient of the Director’s Award from Fmr. SecState Condoleezza Ricea
2025
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“EU (Legal) Statecraft in an Age of Coercion”
Claremont–UC Research Conference on the European Union
Nov. 10, 2025
Solo-authoredb -
“The Lone Star Paradigm: A Texan Blueprint for U.S. Energy Leadership in the Twenty-First Century”
The National Interest: Energy World
Feb. 11, 2025
Co-authored with Igor Logvinenko
2024
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omphalOS
Bureau of Industry and Security
May 8, 2024
Solo-authoredcHistorical version (2024). Current application
Notes
aThis white paper received the Director’s Award from Fmr. SecState Condoleezza Rice. The publication contains an incorrect institutional affiliation; it should read Fas/Jus. See CV.
b“Geo-legality” was cited and discussed by Hakkı Öcal in Daily Sabah on January 26, 2026.
cAn illicit-procurement investigation system in Python/Rust/Go whose SHA-256-verified case files preserve the computational evidence needed for another investigator to reproduce the analysis independently of its author.
Other contributions
- “Mapping U.S. Federal AI Governance Against Sector Vulnerability”
arXiv:2609.16260
Sep. 14, 2026
By Ho Ting Hung, Angelica Chowdhury, James Teague, Simon Mylius, Spencer Michaels, Peter Slattery, Alexander Saeri & Neil ThompsonStrengthened the paper through critical feedback
- “G-24 Briefing”
Kahane Oxy-at-the-U.N. Program
Sep.–Nov. 2024
Co-produced the Kahane Newsletter
- “Stewards, defenders, progenitors, and collaborators: Courts in the age of democratic decline”
Law & Policy
Jul. 9, 2024 (2025 issue)
By Michael A. Dichio & Igor LogvinenkoAssisted with research and administrative work
- “Culture and practice eat documents for lunch:” Norms and procedures in the 2020 election cases
Law & Policy
Mar. 11, 2024
By Michael A. Dichio & Igor LogvinenkoAssisted with research; contributed original analysis
Sometimes credit isn’t given where it’s due 😔
- “With nation-states retreating, cities can take the lead on human rights”
OpenGlobalRights
Jun. 24, 2024
Edited the article (credited) as consultant to the task force
also edited the How to Be a Human Rights City "Toolkit"
- “Measuring Gender-Based Violence at the Local Level”
City Hub and Network for Gender Equity (CHANGE)
Oct. 1, 2025
Lead research consultant to the task force; edited the final report
- “With nation-states retreating, cities can take the lead on human rights”
Peter’s Memos
In Kevin Roose’s The AGI Chronicles, researchers and founders circulate memos to develop ideas and submit them to scrutiny.
My Substack, Peter’s Memos, borrows that form to keep my penchant for long-form writing from yielding a Nachlass of unfinished drafts.