artificial intelligence The Smithies 2026: A Celebration of Mental Redundancy in AI “A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
artificial intelligence OpenAI says AGI has arrived, but is it actually useful? OpenAI’s Astra dropped late last week, and the company says it heralds the dawn of AGI. The model lives up to that hype, but I can’t help but wonder if more power is what we need?
artificial intelligence Sam Altman: we were wrong about AI adoption A little louder for the geeks in the back.
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.
cognitive Life after prompting: the three architectures for using AI in 2026 Turn your prop plane chatbot into a jet fighter harness by changing your game.
cognitive The AI Delusion Dawkins weighed in on the AI consciousness debate, much to the chagrin of the AI researcher world. But does he have a point?
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 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.
artificial intelligence How to write effectively with AI without being a slop bucket If you want to get good at AI, you need to become a better writer.
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.
