Westphalia Labs
AI and Statecraft
Supported by a ChinaTalk grant
Research
CONSENSUS ↗
Can a frontier model be trusted to chair a politically sensitive drafting process? An evaluation of whether AI drafters can infer hidden red lines, preserve policy substance, and recognise when agreement is impossible. Built for the ChinaTalk evals contest.
Protocol ↗ GitHub ↗ Write-up ↗
Can an AI agent serve at a Foreign Office? ↗
A ten-day feasibility pilot in which an AI agent served as a desk officer at a fictional foreign ministry, handling live diplomatic correspondence over a regional dispute. It tracked shifting positions and flagged contradictions well, but acted on ambiguous instructions without checking and lost track of its own earlier actions.
About
Westphalia Labs is founded by Karl Anthony Borg, who spent eight years as a diplomat with Malta's Ministry for Foreign Affairs. As Deputy Head of Mission in Vienna he worked on nuclear non-proliferation at the IAEA and CTBTO, and on dual-use export controls under the Wassenaar Arrangement. He was later Malta's European Correspondent, coordinating its positions at the EU Foreign Affairs Council.He has also worked on EU technology policy, completed LSE's programme on AI Law, Policy and Governance, and writes on geopolitics and technology at karlsnotes.com.LinkedIn