ethics

Today’s AI is as crazy as the President. Cloud Czar Mark Zuckerberg has decided it’s profitable, and that the market...

I think therefore I am, as Rene Descartes said. But what if I am a machine? (Illustration from Google Gemini.)...

It’s not AI’s enemies that are killing the boom. It’s its friends. AI leadership is obsessed with the idea of...

I wouldn’t dream of trading in my old Romic bicycle. It’s 44 years old now, but it still rides like...

For years now, Gary Marcus has been calling upon Artificial Intelligence researchers to turn away from Large Language Models and...

When historians get around to talking about this era (if there are any) they will term it The Era of...

“Whom the Gods destroy they would first make mad.” Throughout this decade, Cloud Czars like Mark Zuckerberg have obsessed over...

Outside the Cloud Czars, most of the companies leading the AI boom are privately held. OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, and dozens...

Yesterday I asked, “What if the TechBros are right?” There’s a lot I didn’t ask. It’s time to continue the...

Evolution is the point of democracy. That’s because autocracies don’t change, while democracy allows for change. Those who resist change...