How AI Is Reshaping Governance, Security and Power

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-AI, 18 May 2026

Layal Beyhum | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service

7 May 2026 – AI policy adviser Tiffany Saade discusses AI governance, challenging AI hype and the narrative of neutral technologies.  [37m:38s]

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In this episode, Layal Beyhum and Tiffany Saade examine how artificial intelligence reshapes governance, security and power. They move past hype and focus on risk, responsibility and institutional readiness. The conversation treats AI as a political and security issue rather than a neutral technology.

Tiffany draws on her work in AI security and threat intelligence to explain how governance lags behind deployment. Systems scale before accountability exists, and states adopt tools without defining responsibility. Layal challenges the idea that AI governance is universal by pushing the discussion toward inequality and geopolitical imbalance. Who writes the rules, who benefits from automation, who absorbs harm when systems fail are the spine behind their discussion. The episode makes clear that governance choices embed power whether acknowledged or not.

The conversation grounds theory in context. Tiffany highlights how countries like Lebanon face AI exposure without decision-making power, claiming that exclusion from global governance increases risk. When policy frameworks lag, states outsource power without safeguards.

The episode concludes with the acknowledgement that AI governance must move upstream, security must shape design, and policy must act before deployment.

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