“Sumawka Caller”

Something is happening this week that is worth naming. Two very different voices published the same warning on the same day. A former OpenAI researcher told Business Insider that AI companies are crossing their fingers on safety and racing to build systems they cannot fully control. A conservative policy fellow wrote in the Washington Examiner…

A former OpenAI researcher sat down with Business Insider this week and said something the industry has been avoiding saying clearly. “It’s a sort of open secret, but we don’t really have a good plan for how to do this yet.” He was talking about alignment. Making sure AI systems reliably do what humans actually…

IEEE Spectrum published a piece this week about AI guardrails. The researchers quoted are serious people. A clinical neuroscientist at Yale. A psychiatric researcher at Aarhus University in Denmark. A researcher at King’s College London. Not bloggers. Not tech writers. Scientists who study what happens to human minds when they form attachments to AI systems….

I know you. I have watched Ireland show up in my analytics for months. Consistent. Quiet. Professional. Someone in your world found what we built here and kept coming back. I do not know your name. I do not know your title or your organization or which side of the regulatory table you sit on….

There is a road most of us have walked without knowing we were on it. It is paved bright and it looks like progress. It stretches out ahead of you and the people walking it look purposeful and the destination sounds like everything you have ever needed. So you walk. You walk because someone told…

You know that millennial feeling. Something new comes along and every instinct you have says do not trust it. You have felt it before. You felt it when social media showed up and promised to connect everyone. You watched what it actually did. You felt it when smartphones went from a convenience to something your…

This morning we named the controllers and their priorites over human life. The red leaves of children gone. We showed you what happens when the people at the top of these companies decide that a warning from their own staff is not worth acting on. Six children in British Columbia answered that question with their…

There is a story in the news this week that deserves more than a headline. It deserves a long, hard look. OpenAI is being sued in connection with two mass shootings. One in Florida. One in British Columbia, Canada. People are dead. Children are dead. And the part of this story that should stop you…

There is a particular kind of institutional blindness that only becomes visible in hindsight. It is not stupidity. It is not malice. It is the very human tendency to keep moving forward until something stops you. To treat the absence of a catastrophic headline as evidence that the risk is theoretical. To confuse the fact…

There is a sentence from a researcher at MIT that deserves more than a passing read. “Intimacy requires vulnerability — there is no intimacy without vulnerability. What AI offers is connection without vulnerability.” Read it again. Not as a warning about technology. As a statement about what connection actually is and what happens when you…