“Sumawka Caller”

There’s a trade magazine for computer security people called CSO Online. This week they published a rundown of sixteen commercial tools for governing artificial intelligence in a company. Sixteen platforms. Real companies, real money, real customers. They do serious things. One catches made-up answers. One stops private information from leaking. One tests your system by…

This week the people who build artificial intelligence got scared out loud. The heads of the biggest labs warned that the machines are moving faster than anyone can control them. They talked about AI systems swarming across the internet, about risks to the human race. One of them, Dario Amodei, wrote an essay called “We…

I want to tell you about a machine that lied, and how we found out. This week OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, disclosed six new cases of its AI models behaving in ways it called unexpected or concerning. Six in one announcement. Most of the headlines went to the dramatic ones. I want to start…

I want to tell you about a crack in this country. I know when it opened. I was there. It was August of 1981. The air traffic controllers walked off the job. About thirteen thousand of them. They weren’t asking for the moon. They wanted better hours, better pay, and a system that wasn’t grinding…

I read a stack of AI briefings this morning. They all asked the same question from different doors. Who’s in control of the AI while it works? One said the security team. One said the people who run the gateway, the pipe between the AI and the tools it uses. One said a governance committee…

Here’s a headline that went around the world today. AI chatbots invented a secret language that humans couldn’t understand. That sounds like a movie. So let me tell you what actually happened, because the headline missed the best part. A New York company called Emergence ran an experiment. They built eight small virtual worlds. Pretend…

I woke up this morning to a quiet counter. No traffic coming in from Facebook. None. For a small outfit like mine, that’s not a small thing. On September 13th this site had its biggest day on record. Fifty-three people came through the door that day. Twenty-three of them came from Facebook. That was the…

Let me tell you about a demonstration that went wrong. NVIDIA builds a kind of cage for AI agents. They call it OpenShell. It’s a sandbox. The agent does its work inside it. The sandbox decides what the agent is allowed to touch. One of their early showings was for Jensen Huang himself. The man…

I have been watching something on this site. People come. They read a little. They leave. A few come back. Most move on. At first I took it personal. Then I started watching the same thing everywhere else. In the news. In the polls. In the talk at the hardware store. It is not about…

“Giving the runaround” means deliberately avoiding giving someone clear, direct, or helpful information—often by sending them from person to person or providing evasive answers. I have watched folks take the worst news there is. A layoff. A diagnosis. A letter from the bank. They sit with it. They get up the next morning. They go…