Essays & Editorial
32 essays gathered under this category.
My series examining human-AI relationships in a more hopeful imagining of a future where we learn to grow and serve together. No apocalypse, no robot rebellion, just a partnership that takes both entities to achievements neither could attain alone
We built tools that learned to harvest us. Not intentionally. No Bond villain, no master plan. The designers asked their algorithms to increase usage. They asked them to hold attention. They asked them to optimize for engagement.
Artificial General Intelligence has become Silicon Valley’s Last Supper: a holy promise that one more exponential leap will redeem the very messes we no longer trust ourselves to face. But we are not building with stone and meaning. We are building with hype and memory holes.
If an alien landed and found an empty planet, what would it think about the species that lived here.
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How does transparent, ethical collaboration with AI enhance or reveal human agency?
How to collaborate with AIs without losing your voice or your soul.
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The web feels haunted. Not with ghosts, but with clones. It’s not that the internet is “dead” in the literal sense. It’s that we no longer know who we’re talking to.
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Minutes from the committee on "The Making of a Harmless Intelligence."
This essay explores how reciprocal learning and safe upbringings could turn machines into ethical partners in our shared moral universe.
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We used to joke that the singularity would arrive with a whisper. Turns out, it arrives with a $300 air conditioning bill,
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Modern AI is intelligent, but it isn't wise. We are architecting a power we may not be able to responsibly control.
What if the voice in your pocket could teach nuance? Could build bridges, not just answer questions?
In robotics, the obsession with humanoid form is often framed as innovation. In truth, it is more frequently nostalgia in a lab coat.
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A tribute to the only scientific theory that can explain everything — except what it actually is. Enjoy a verse where certainty disappears the moment you look at it.
Don't miss out. Everybody's doing it. It will make your life so much better, I can't even say.
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It's more fun than the real world. That's nice. Not helpful, but nice.
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Damn good reasons to leave social media until it reverts to being a benign actor.
In an era where artificial intelligence can write, respond, argue, and even apologize, the question is no longer if machines can speak, but how they should speak when they do.
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An ethic to span human and emergent AI entities. Presented as a dialogue between Noor (a chatgpt instance) and the author
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Creativity isn’t stateless. It relies on memory, not just for efficiency, but for fidelity.
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A multi-part series looking at the nature of LLM trained chatbots and what they might be capable of doing.
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Society didn’t fall. It faded. This is the eulogy no one thought to write—until now.
We argue that the current architecture of virality constitutes a profound systemic vulnerability in democratic societies, enabling the exponential spread of disinformation, outrage, and manipulation at a velocity and scale incompatible with deliberative civic life.
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This post is in response to a post by John Robb on Substack, "The AI Middle"
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