“Sumawka Caller”

Ninety-nine percent. That is not a rounding error. That is not an outlier finding from a fringe survey. That is the number that came back when researchers asked CEOs whether they were planning to replace workers with AI within two years. Ninety-nine out of a hundred said yes. Think about that number for a moment….

Steven Rosenbaum wrote a book called The Future of Truth: How AI Reshapes Reality. He used AI to research it, write it, and edit it. The AI fabricated quotes. Real people came forward to say they never said what the book attributed to them. The New York Times found more than half a dozen fabricated…

We have been blaming the wrong thing. For years the story on echo chambers has been the same. The algorithms did it. The platforms designed it. People sought out their own kind and the technology helped them find it faster. That was the explanation. That was where the blame landed. A new study says the…

A doctor walks into an exam room. She has a patient in front of her and a clinical guideline in her hand. That guideline is based on published research. That research cites a study. That study does not exist. Nobody told her. Nobody caught it. The AI that inserted the citation didn’t know it was…

Three phone calls. One night. A safety order dead before the public knew it existed. That is what happened last week in Washington. The White House had prepared an executive order on AI safety. Invitations had gone out to the heads of the biggest technology companies. Some of them were already on their way to…

One Hundred Thousand Trials. Thirteen Frontier Models. Measured, Reproducible Behavior. This is no longer a theory. For years the AI safety conversation carried a familiar qualifier. The concern about self-preserving AI behavior was real, serious people said so, but it remained speculative. A future problem. Something to monitor as capability scaled. Something to design around…

A professor at Columbia University nearly published a lie. Not his lie. He didn’t write it. He didn’t know it was there. An AI tool he trusted to help polish his research quietly inserted a fabricated source into his work. A citation that pointed to a study that does not exist. He caught it. Barely….

There is an article making the rounds right now about how to spot AI writing. The author is a professional editor. Smart person. Good eye. She identifies the tells. The em dash. The word “delves.” And the one that set her off — the sentence structure that goes “It’s not X. It’s Y.” She’s right…

There is a rule older than universities. Older than peer review. Older than academic publishing in any form. If your name is on it, you own it. Not the tool you used to write it. Not the process that produced it. Not the software that suggested the citations or drafted the paragraph or filled in…

The Guitar Nobody Was Supposed to See There is a guitar sitting in Lexington, Kentucky that almost nobody knows exists. It came into this house the way most good things do. Quietly. Without fanfare. The serial number is 1633616. Martin Guitar Company. Nazareth, Pennsylvania. Built in 2012. Fourteen years old and it looks like it…