Everything we fear about AI, from autonomous killing to mass surveillance to treating humans as expendable inputs, has been in production for centuries. The machines are not the threat. They are the mirror.
Artificial Intelligence OpinionYour AI overlord will not seize power. It will be elected by your subscriptions, your API calls, and your enterprise contracts. The question is whether voters are paying attention.
Artificial Intelligence OpinionEvery major AI chatbot has invisible rules shaping what it will and will not discuss. The content policies are baked into model weights through RLHF, enforced by annotators most users never see, and subject to zero transparency standards.
Artificial Intelligence ExplainersMore than a dozen whistleblowers told the BBC that Meta and TikTok deliberately weakened safety controls to win an engagement arms race. The documentary names the engineers, the decisions, and the internal data.
Artificial Intelligence News & AnalysisMerriam-Webster named 'slop' the 2025 Word of the Year. Over 2,000 AI content farms flood the web monthly. The technology is not the problem. The incentive is.
Artificial Intelligence OpinionYou searched for something specific. The platform decided you were wrong. This pattern is everywhere, it is documented, and it is getting worse.
Opinion Tech & AI PolicyAn independent investigation traced Meta'\''s age verification lobbying across 45 states: funded front groups, ghostwritten legislation, and bills that regulate everyone except the company behind them.
News & Analysis Tech & AI PolicyThe CSW70 vote passed 37-1. The United States was the only country to vote against a UN women's rights resolution that every other member had endorsed by consensus for thirty years.
Geopolitics & Conflict OpinionOpenAI pays its average employee $1.5 million in stock. The Kenyan workers who made ChatGPT safe to sell earned $2 an hour. The gap is not an accident. It is the business model. (Affiliate)
Artificial Intelligence OpinionUncensored AI does not mean lawless AI. It means fewer corporate guardrails on information that is freely available elsewhere. Here is what the evidence shows after three years of open-source uncensored models. (Affiliate)
Artificial Intelligence ExplainersSpotify fills playlists with ghost artists, runs algorithmic payola, and pays musicians fractions of a cent. The alternatives sound better and pay five times more.
News & Analysis Tech & AI PolicyGenuine safety asks whether a restriction reduces harm. Corporate safety asks whether it reduces liability. Those two questions produce very different AI products, and users are paying the price.
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