# Peter Warren Singer **Entity class:** Person; sociotechnical conflict strategist ## Definition **Peter Warren Singer** is a strategist whose work connects robotics, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, social-media weaponization, privatized military power, terrorism, insurgency, and future conflict. His books include *Wired for War*, *Cybersecurity and Cyberwar*, and *[[wiki/LikeWar|LikeWar]]*. ## Why This Person Is Included Singer is an adjacent systems thinker whose value lies in connecting technical change to changes in narrative, human behavior, institutions, and military organization. Bryant McGill includes him because Singer repeatedly moves across technical and social layers that are often kept separate. The collection goes deeper into intelligence infrastructure, predictive graphs, and epidemiological modeling; Singer supplies a broad public-facing account of how emerging technologies alter conflict as a sociotechnical system. ## Relationships - **domains:** [[wiki/Future of War|Future of War]], [[wiki/Insurgency|Insurgency]], [[wiki/Robotics|Robotics]], [[wiki/Cyberwarfare|Cyberwarfare]], and [[wiki/Artificial Intelligence|Artificial Intelligence]]. - **information environment:** [[wiki/LikeWar|LikeWar]], [[wiki/Information Warfare|Information Warfare]], and [[wiki/Social Media and Conflict|Social Media and Conflict]]. - **collection role:** adjacent sociotechnical thinker in [[wiki/Intellectual Neighborhood of the Counterterrorism Collection|Intellectual Neighborhood of the Counterterrorism Collection]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [New America, “Peter Warren Singer”](https://www.newamerica.org/people/peter-warren-singer/) (accessed 2026-09-23). **As of:** 2026-09-23