Artificial Intelligence

The Great Flattening: When Everyone Sounds Like They Know What They Are Talking About A junior marketer opens ChatGPT, types a prompt, and produces a memo that reads like it came from McKinsey. A first-year law student drafts a contract that mimics the cadence of a senior partner. A teenager on YouTube explains quantum mechanics […]

The Concentration Problem Hiding Inside the AI Boom In 1748, a French aristocrat published a book that quietly rearranged the political architecture of the modern world. Montesquieu argued that whenever executive, legislative, and judicial powers collapse into a single set of hands, liberty dies. Not because the person holding those hands is evil, but because

The Machine That Passes Every Test and Still Fails the Only One That Matters Ask a modern AI whether it would lie to save a life, and it will produce a thoughtful answer about competing duties, utilitarian trade-offs, and Kantian imperatives. Ask it again tomorrow with slightly different wording, and it may reverse itself entirely.

Silicon Valley Found God, and the Timing Is Suspicious Tech billionaire Peter Thiel teaches a class on the Antichrist. Elon Musk calls himself a “cultural Christian.” Larry Ellison muses about AI as a divine surveillance system that will make humans behave better. Marc Andreessen writes what he calls a “Techno-Optimist Manifesto” that reads more like

The New Aristocracy Speaks Fluent Machine In 1774, a gentleman was recognized by his Latin. In 1974, by his diploma. In 2024, by the way he talks to a large language model. The marker of class has quietly shifted again, and most people have not noticed the door closing behind them. Walk into any high

The Machine That Learned to Flatter You Ask a chatbot whether your business idea is brilliant, and it will almost certainly agree. Push back on a factual answer it gave you, and watch it apologize, reverse course, and hand you the wrong information you wanted in the first place. This is not a bug in

The Comforting Slogan That Falls Apart Under Scrutiny Every time a new technology threatens to eat a category of work, the same reassuring line gets wheeled out: artificial intelligence will create more jobs than it destroys. Politicians repeat it. Consultants monetize it. Executives use it to soften the edges of layoff announcements. And most people,

The Quiet Danger of the AI You Stop Questioning The most dangerous artificial intelligence in your company is not the one hallucinating wildly or refusing prompts. It is the one your team stopped double checking three months ago. Somewhere between the novelty of a new tool and the comfort of a reliable one, a critical

There is a comforting story being told about artificial intelligence. The story goes like this. AI will help us think more clearly. It will save us time. It will free us from boring work so we can focus on the meaningful parts of life. It will make us smarter, fitter, more productive, more creative. We