A key element of the crime of genocide is intent. Prosecutors must show that those who carried out mass killings did so with the conscious intent to wipe out a people in whole or part.
The international system is breaking down. Borders are increasingly meaningless after the invasions of Ukraine and Gaza. China eyes Taiwan across the strait and insists that it will reunify the island with the mainland by force if necessary.
The killing of transgender teenager Brianna Ghey in northern England has reopened a debate that periodically comes back but has never been satisfactorily answered.
These are strange times for humanity. On one hand, AI, confined within its abstract, immaterial space, is beginning to transform our shared culture into a hyperreal simulacrum of already existing human expression.