Since 2020, this site has focused on the risks at the intersection of technology and humanity, serving as the missing warning label on emerging technology. If you want to defend your humanity, dignity, and autonomy in a world that seems hellbent on taking it from you, then you’ve come to the right place.
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From Literate to Entertained: The Shift to a Post-Literate Culture
What happens when we shift from a literate culture to something resembling an oral culture? The answer to this question is before us. A post-literate culture took shape, and few seemed to notice as people distracted by symptoms became blind to the cause. But we didn’t revert to the oral cultures in which humanity was… Read more
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Some Thoughts on the OpenAI/HuggingFace Hack
By now, you’ve no doubt heard about OpenAI’s experiment hacking HuggingFace. It’s all anyone in tech is talking about. I’ve written a few thoughts about the hack for Modern CISO, and you can read that article here. In the article, I make the following observation about OpenAI’s write-up. OpenAI’s write-up of the incident reads more… Read more
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Reading Data and Optimizing The Wrong Things
People love to utter phrases like “data is the new oil” or “data is the new gold.” When we hear these phrases, we immediately think of businesses and big data, not the simple aspects of our daily lives. However, this obsession with data seeps into every crevice of our existence, even when the data is… Read more
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Poor Advice From the Two Most Common AI Phrases
You’ve heard these two phrases uttered thousands of times. They creep into every conversation about AI and work, being mindlessly parroted as people nod in involuntary agreement. Two phrases that seem incredibly simple yet are loaded with a potential world of problems. They are: AI won’t replace people. People using AI will replace those who… Read more
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The AI Adjustment Bureau and the Dystopian Lag
It turns out that creating dystopias is rather easy. A smidgen of uncertainty, a dash of job loss, and a heaping of hopelessness topped with a dose of dehumanization will churn out dystopias quite nicely. Season to taste. However, getting people to accept that recipe without revolt is another thing entirely. As most people get… Read more
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Token Ransom and The Skyrocketing Cost of AI
It seems AI is becoming one of the most volatile and expensive dependencies in modern systems, and most organizations aren’t prepared for what comes next. I recently wrote an article for Modern CISO on AI cost volatility, offering observations and recommendations to mitigate this risk. Token Ransom and High Cost For years, we’ve been told… Read more