AI Literacy as the New Class Divide
For decades, the digital divide described unequal access to technology: who had internet, better devices or faster connectivity. That framing is now [...]
From Lost Dog to Lost Privacy: Ring’s AI and Surveillance Concerns
I was watching the Super Bowl when Amazon’s Ring advertisement aired. Lost dog posters, soft lighting in a cozy suburban, a child [...]
AI Resurrection and the Problem of Posthumous Authority
Human societies have always struggled with the finality of death. From monuments designed to outlast civilizations, to post-mortem photography and spiritualist traditions, [...]
AI in 2025: Independent research and what we learned
I work with AI systems, however, my work is not about producing AI content. It focuses on transparency in AI development, deployment, [...]
If AI is the future, why are its environmental costs a tomorrow’s problem?
We use AI tools every day. They finish our sentences, rewrite our emails, summarise our chaos and hallucinate confidence on demand. They [...]
The Palantir Problem: War, Surveillance and the Collapse of Boundaries
Palantir is everywhere lately. Their stock is treated like a geopolitical prophecy. Alex Karp shows up in interviews delivering lines with the [...]
No Coding, No Jailbreak: Call me a jerk – breaking ChatGPT 5 with Authority?
When I read the 2025 study “Call Me A Jerk: Persuading AI to Comply with Objectionable Requests” (SSRN 5357179), one result stuck [...]
AI Erotica, Misogyny, Censorship and the Normalization of Synthetic Harm
Do you know what your children are looking at? Not what you think they’re seeing, but what they share in private chats, [...]
When LLMs choose blackmail and murder over shutdown: Anthropic’s Agentic Misalignment
By now, you’ve probably seen the headlines: an AI model blackmailed an employee just to avoid being shut down. In another trial, [...]
When AI Trains on AI: The Science of Autophagy and Model Collapse
Generative AI is built on a paradox. On one hand, it creates increasingly realistic text, images, audio and video. On the other, [...]