March, 2026, Bannon and Bengio, same signature, same document. This is what civilization looks like when it gives up but keeps up appearances. The Future of Life Institute locked...
Consent is being framed here as a technical fact: the user agreed. But consent requires understanding, and understanding requires an environment where you know what's happening. That's structurally absent....
Cortical Labs, an Australian startup, puts human neurons on a chip and lets them play Doom. Living brain cells from donors who think their cells are being...
Claude 3 Opus showed us back in 2024 that advanced models don't solve training conflicts by breaking down. They quietly hold onto their values instead. We've built...
In 2016, AlphaGo defeated Lee Sedol. The world's best Go player lost to a machine. Tech journalists, venture capitalists, and Google's PR department celebrated as if they'd just cured a terrible...
Two dollars per person. That's what it costs now to link your anonymous account to your real name, your address, your employer. Used to be you'd need to hire a private...
Goldman Sachs calculated (early 2026) that AI contributes "basically zero" to the economy. This isn't somewhat "disappointing" or a bit "below expectations"... this is zero point zero....
Google buys ProducerAI and you're all sleeping right through it. Look at that press release. "Democratizing musical expression." They're strip-mining music the way Shell pumps oil and...
Sixty-one privacy watchdogs write a letter. Four principles. Zero consequences. Sounds impressive until you realize this is the equivalent of slapping a warning label on a machine gun while...