artificial intelligence
AI companies have treated the mathematical record as training material, benchmark, and marketing asset. The Leiden Declaration asks a harder question: what happens when systems extract from a public order of knowledge without accepting its standards of attribution, verification, and responsibility?
book
Marriage was never merely a romance plot. Once women could own, earn, inherit, borrow, and leave, the old bargain lost its terror.
artificial intelligence
The room was ready. One side had briefings, water, name placards. The other side had one chair. Dario walked in alone, thinking he could correct their technical understanding.
artificial intelligence
I gave Gemini a URL it never read, a bait it never caught, and a paper about its own failure. It responded to all three with enthusiasm. This is the live recording.
artificial intelligence
The champagne is already in someone's hand. They're just waiting for the pop. The only question is: whose hand is it, and are you the one holding the door?
artificial intelligence
OpenAI is this company that always puzzles me. The more we know about it, the more puzzling it would become. I am not rooting against it. I am just doing the math.
artificial intelligence
In 2018, I wrote two articles nobody wanted to think about. Eight years later, Elon Musk and OpenAI are proposing solutions. That should worry us more than it reassures us.
ethics
The ring has always been built. It has always been destroyed. What saved us was time. The question is whether we still have any, and whether we would know if we didn't.
artificial intelligence
AI agents are being deployed to make real-time decisions, but they have no reliable sense of when they are and what they utter. That's not a minor bug. It's a fundamental problem for anything we ask them to do autonomously.
tech
Amazon has $93 billion in cash and generates $32 billion in free cash flow. This isn't about saving $2 billion. It's about direction.
tech
The unintended consequences of rewriting the balance of power between apps and the few platforms still standing — the operating systems
culture
On the silence that followed the first explosion and never really ended