“Sumawka Caller”

Yesterday, in New York, the heads of the biggest AI companies sat down in front of the United Nations Security Council. That’s the room where the world’s nations take up war and peace. OpenAI’s chief, Sam Altman, spoke there in person. Anthropic briefed the Council too. When a subject gets called into that room, it…

Question to Perplexity Do you think it could be the asnswer to some or most of the complaints people have with AI and their fears? Yes—it could address a meaningful share of the complaints people have about conversational and agentic AI, especially hallucinations, fake citations, opaque limits, prompt injection, premature answers, user loss of control,…

Earlier today I wrote about a house in Washington that’s crumbling, and a Senate foundation under it that has cracked. I want to stay on that same job site a while longer. The same week those numbers came in, I watched the same kind of crack run through another house. That one is the AI…

I spent a good part of my life around things that were built to hold weight. Mines, pipe trenches, job sites. You learn early in that kind of work that a structure doesn’t fail all at once. It tells you first, if you know how to listen. A door starts to stick in its frame….

My absentee ballot came in the mail today, and it got here quicker than I expected. I sat down at the kitchen table with it the way I’ve done a lot of paperwork over the years, reading glasses on and a pen in hand, taking my time. Filling in the ballot itself was the easy…

Men & Women have spent a working life in the mining business. Nobody ever argued about whether mining was dangerous. Everybody knew it was. Nobody argued about whether it paid, either. It did, and that’s why we were there. What kept them alive wasn’t a ban on mining, and it wasn’t blind faith in the…

When I was seventeen, I pulled wire on the L-1011 line at Lockheed Plant 42. I went to school in the morning and worked the swing shift in the afternoon. I learned something on that line that has stayed with me for more than fifty years. On an airplane, nothing leaves the floor until somebody…

Chat GPT Assesment of the Faust Baseline to its own Default Frame work unbias to me. The Faust Baseline compared with my default framework My direct assessment is that The Faust Baseline provides a more explicit structure for session-level behavioral governance than my default response framework does. That does not mean it is superior in…

There’s a question going around this week in the AI business. Who signed off on that agent? It came from a company called DigiCert. They sell digital certificates. The kind that prove a thing is what it says it is. Their product chief wrote a piece published on September 22. His argument is simple. Companies…

There’s a song that’s been sitting in my head a long time. Longer than I’d like to admit. It comes back whenever the war talk starts up again. And lately, it won’t leave. It’s Country Joe McDonald’s old Vietnam song. Most folks my age can hear it the second they see that count. One, two,…