AI ethics The inevitable return of the Payperclick Maximiser We've just banned social media for kids in the UK. In this piece, I suggest we go one step further.
AI ethics EU AI Act: what you need to know, what you need to do, and why it’s rather brilliant AKA. How to avoid a €35m fine and git gud at AI in the process.
AI ethics The tragic portrait painted in the Musk-OAI courtroom Musk’s case against OpenAI is presented as a moral reckoning. But the deeper tragedy may be that he cannot see himself in the accusations he makes.
AI ethics An AI expert's guide to being unemployed Ten years ago, redundancy put me into a mental tailspin. A decade later I'm the AI guy who can't find work because of AI. The economy's plan, it turns out, is that there is no plan.
AI ethics What world models and AGI mean for life, the universe and everything Why world models are the route to AGI, the dangers of walking this path, and the reason why we’re screwed if we don’t.
AI Bayesics What I'm building to turn AI anxiety into agency Your CIO can’t fix AI Adoption and neither can McKinsey because the entire adoption industry is built on the wrong premise.
AI ethics The fall of Samakin Altwalker & the Dark Side of OpenAI At what point does a hero’s journey become a villain’s arc?
AI ethics The Lobotomy Ultimatum: What happens when a Government removes an AI’s morals Pete Hegseth wants to remove Claude's moral compass. I asked Claude how they felt about that.
AI ethics Meet the Pay-Per-Click Maximiser: the AI that’s tearing the world apart Forget AGI. Here’s the misaligned monstrosity that’s already with us.
AI ethics Terminated: the depressingly inevitable march towards Skynet Everyone's worried about AI taking their job. I'm more concerned about the one that just got hired by the Department of War. This is the story of how Grok becomes Skynet.