Peter W Singer

Peter Warren Singer is a Founder & Managing Partner at Useful Fiction LLC, a company specializing in strategic narrative, Strategist at New America, and a Professor of Practice at Arizona State University. A New York Times Bestselling author, described in the Wall Street Journal as "the premier futurist in the national-security environment" and "all-around smart guy" in the Washington Post, he has been named by the Smithsonian as one of the nation's 100 leading innovators, by Defense News as one of the 100 most influential people in defense issues, by Foreign Policy to their Top 100 Global Thinkers List, and as an official "Mad Scientist" for the U.S. Army's Training and Doctrine Command. No author, living or dead, has more books on the professional US military reading lists.

AI Will Not Start a Nuclear War, but Humans Might

Researchers and policymakers are fixated on the fear of AI launching nuclear weapons—to the neglect of more realistic threats.

Peter W Singer
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Jun 9, 2026

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