Who writes the code of the new world? | The Jerusalem Post

Software has quietly become strategic terrain. The question is no longer who can write it, but who can be trusted to govern it. For decades we thought of code as something hidden behind the screen -- a technical language, a sequence of instructions written by engineers and executed by machines. That definition no longer holds. Code now governs financial systems, biometric identification, telecommunications, energy grids, intelligence platforms, satellites, autonomous weapons and artificial intelligence. It is no longer merely running civilization; it has become part of civilization's strategic architecture. That shift raises one of the defining security questions of our time: who writes this code, who controls it, and what values are being embedded within it? Much of the architecture of modern computing emerged from American universities, laboratories and defense programs.…