In a Bloomberg Opinion column, Hal Brands argues that the world is unlikely to settle into a stable equilibrium anytime soon, citing overlapping crises including conflict near the Strait of Hormuz, Russian strikes in Ukraine, strained American alliances, a fractured global economy, and near-weekly AI breakthroughs. He contends that constant AI advancement has become one of several forces feeding a state of ongoing geopolitical turbulence rather than resolving it. Brands, a Bloomberg Opinion columnist and Johns Hopkins professor, has separately edited a volume on the geopolitics of AI.