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We've Got It Backwards On AI
AI might never achieve true human awareness (called “AGI”) but it has already shown that much of what we think and do can be accomplished by a machine.
Will Accountants Save Us From AI?
The world’s big four accounting firms are developing “AI assurance services” to ensure their corporate clients’ AI tools are behaving properly and…
The First And Last AI Device?
The celebrated designer of Apple’s most famous and successful products plans to give us an AI device, whether we want it or not.
No, AI Isn't Just Another Technology
Internet doyenne Mary Meeker thinks that AI is different from every other tech revolution we’ve experienced.
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May 2025

CliffsNotes For The AI Apocalypse
A dear friend recently said that he couldn’t imagine how the existential threat of AI might play out, so I spent some time trying to come up with a few…
Where's Your AI Bunker?
“We’re definitely going to build a bunker before we release AGI.”
Looking For The Wrong Thing From AI?
A recent survey of AI use in the workplace found that “AI chatbots have had no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation.”
AI Says “Jump!”
Kids at a private grade school in Texas are being taught by AIs instead of teachers.

April 2025

Ads Are Coming To AI
Work is well underway to help brands exploit the results of your next chatbot query or project.
AI Makes Us Peasants
Amidst all the speculation about AI solving problems great and small (while potentially destroying all of humanity in the process), we’ve lost sight of…
AI Testing = “What, Me Worry?”
OpenAI has decided to cut testing of its newest, most powerful AI models from months to only a few days and will start rolling out one of them, called…
AI vs. Humanity: Game Over
Two recent research papers on the near-future of AI development use 216 pages of often impenetrable blather to tell us something that could be…
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