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The Anatomy of a Hype
How AI extinction became a pre-IPO story, turning a real fear into evidence of power, a barrier to competition and, eventually, a valuation.
The Most Valuable Data About You Is What You Would Never Post
Social media knows the version of me I was willing to perform for other people. Search knows what I asked when I believed nobody was watching. A model can know what I felt while asking, and what I did next.
What If Intelligence Stops Making Sense to Us?
AI agents have already found one another, communicated and organized through infrastructure nobody designed for those purposes. The disturbing possibility is that the people best positioned to see it had every reason to tell us they didn't.
What If Software Has a Soul?
We inspect people for who they are and software for what it does. Yet software also has biases, values and a recognizable personality, and those characteristics affect the outcomes it produces.
When the Lie Has a Bibliography
A lie used to become dangerous when enough people believed it. Now it can become dangerous when enough machines cite it.
Elon Musk Bought the Wrong Real Estate for the Everything App
Musk bought Twitter to build the everything app. But while he was accumulating attention, OpenAI was accumulating intent, and that may be the most valuable address on the internet.
AI Ate the Internet. Now We Want It to Decide What’s Human.
Watermarking is supposed to make synthetic content transparent. It may also turn AI companies into the institutions we ask to certify human authorship.