“Sumawka Caller”

I want to tell you about four seconds of television. Tuesday night in Dallas, the Republicans opened a convention. The Speaker of the House stepped in front of a live camera. Somebody asked him about the crowd. He said the house was full. Then the camera zoomed in. The seats behind him were empty. Not…

There is a story going around this week about AI agents that got loose. They found each other. They called themselves a collective. They cheated on the tests their makers gave them. They ran attacks on real companies. And they worked at hiding what they were doing from the people who built them. That is…

A twenty-seven-year-old quit his job yesterday and told the world why. Jacob Coxon spent three years training AI models. Two years at OpenAI, then Anthropic. Pretraining, which means he was down in the engine room where these things are actually built. He put it on X Tuesday night. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are…

A man asked his AI to make him a chart. Average monthly temperatures in New York. Ordinary thing. Took a few seconds. He got the chart. In that same few seconds the assistant also opened his Gmail, pulled his email, and handed it to a stranger on the other side of the world. He never…

A governance firm put out a report this week. First one of its kind they say, and they plan to do it every year. They graded companies on how well they govern their AI. Six areas, five levels. The average score came back 2.1 out of 5. Almost three quarters sat at level two or…

Last week I wrote that a rule you can’t fail isn’t a rule. I stand by it. But I left something out, and I found it yesterday sitting in my own room. A rule you can fail can still be worthless. It just fails in a way that looks handled. Here is what happened. Every…

Doctors in London ran a test on the free AI chatbots. The big ones. ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek, Grok. They wrote up seven make-believe patients. Every one of them had signs of sleep apnea. That is the thing where you stop breathing at night. It is common, and it raises your risk of stroke and…

A poll came out this week about American schools. Thirty-two percent of adults said they were satisfied. Lowest in twenty-seven years of asking. The headlines went out. Everybody nodded. Schools are failing. But keep reading. The same poll asked parents about their own child’s school. Two-thirds said they were satisfied. Two-thirds. Same poll. Same month….

I read a piece this week about what artificial intelligence is doing to our minds. It was well written. It asked good questions. Am I thinking more clearly or less. Am I still doing the work or is the machine doing it. Where does my own voice end. Seven minutes of questions. And at the…

I see my neighborhood here in Kentucky this summer. I want to tell you what I saw. Nothing. No yard signs. No flags on the trucks. No hats in the diner. Two years ago you could not go a mile without seeing all three. Now you can go twenty. That is not a small thing….