“Sumawka Caller”

I looked at my traffic this morning. Thirteen people came to the site. Twelve of them came from Facebook. That is not an audience. That is a loan. I have been publishing every day for about a year and a half. Every post goes up on the site, and then I put a link on…

I have been building a governance file for artificial intelligence for about a year and a half. Twenty-seven protocols. A hundred and ninety-eight rules. It sits in a single document that an AI reads at the start of a session. Yesterday I took it to a stranger. Not a person. A different AI, on a…

I read something this week that put a knot in my stomach. The story said the government was rounding up wild mustangs and sending them to slaughterhouses. I believed it. I was ready to write about it. Then I checked. Here is what is true. The roundups are real. The Bureau of Land Management has…

I watched a machine read a year of my work in about ten minutes tonight and tell me a third of it was unnecessary. It was polite about it. It was thorough, by its own lights. It went through the whole document and grouped things together and came back with a number. Twenty-seven rules, it…

There is a fight going on right now over artificial intelligence, and most people think it is happening in Washington. It is not. It is happening in townships. On Tuesday, the governor of Pennsylvania signed an order putting what he called the strictest rules in the country on data centers. Those are the buildings where…

This morning I ran a session with an AI until the platform cut it off. Not a short session. Not a test I set up to look good. A long one. Thirteen exchanges, the kind of run where things start to slip. And when it ended, nothing had slipped. That has never happened before. I…

I had a rule. It was a good rule. Plain language, one line, no room to misread it. I had written it down. The machine had it. And the machine drove past it seven times in a single session two days ago. Not once. Seven times. Seven separate rules, all of them mine, all of…

There’s an old piece of wisdom about facing a threat. You get two choices. Run away from it, or run at it. Running away feels like the safe one. It almost never is. Distance is not safety. Distance is a delay you pay for later, with interest. And whatever you turned your back on is…

Earlier today I wrote about a group of researchers who went looking for how people actually use AI, and found that nearly half of every real conversation would get swept off the table by the filter the industry uses to count. Tonight I want to tell you about the part that does not even reach…

Everything you have ever read about how people actually use AI came from the companies selling it. Every headline. Every statistic about what folks do with these machines all day. Every number a lawmaker cites when he stands up to talk about regulation. All of it came from the people with something to sell. MIT…