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 Bayesics AI Bayesics #3: Cognitive sparring The most valuable thing AI can do is tell you you’re wrong.
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 AI Bayesics #1: how and where to use AI If you want to learn how to use AI but don't know where the on button is, this piece is for you.
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 Safety Resistance is futile: first contact with the Microsoft collective If Elon Musk is unleashing Skynet and Mark Zuckerberg runs the Pay-per-click Maximiser, Satya Nadella is ushering in the Borg.
AI Safety The Usual Slopspects In a world inundated with slop, many are putting the blame on AI. The painful truth, however, is that the actual culprit is much closer to home.
AI Safety The merge-in-turn problem: why UK Government’s AI strategy is fundamentally broken UK Minister for AI Kanishka Narayan wants to teach 10 million people how to use AI. We should be showing them how think with it instead.
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.
