“Sumawka Caller”

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…

You can get your money back on most things. Take the tool back to the store. Cancel the order. Return the part that did not fit. Somebody hands you the cash and you walk out even. Not this. There is no counter you can carry discouragement up to. No receipt. Nobody takes it back. You…

They fear whose hand is on it. I’ve been listening to people talk about AI. Not the experts. Regular people. And I noticed something. They are not afraid of the machine. They have already worked that part out. What they don’t trust is the hand on it. Who built it. Who owns it. Who decides…

I have been trying to sell something that nobody wants to buy. Not because it does not work. Because of what it asks. Let me tell you what I finally figured out. When people got their first car, they had to learn to drive it. Clutch. Gears. Mirrors. Watch the road. Watch the other fella….

A group of the biggest names in artificial intelligence sat down this spring and wrote a rulebook. Anthropic. Google. Microsoft. IBM. OpenAI. Amazon. Cisco. Companies that compete with each other every single day. They call themselves the Coalition for Secure AI. They work under OASIS Open, a standards body that has been writing technical rules…