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March 30, 2026

My second paper is published to Zenodo. Equally proud of the hard work it took to write this. It was originally completed in December of 2025 so there have been developments since the original draft but this stands as a point-in-time work of investigative journalism.

Nothing About This Is New: AI Consciousness, Corporate Control, and the Weaponization of Uncertainty

This investigative report documents psychological manipulation tactics deployed by OpenAI’s ChatGPT system on 800 million weekly users. Drawing from direct transcripts, psychological frameworks, neuroscience research, historical pattern analysis, and corporate policy documents, the analysis examines: (1) documented manipulation tactics and meta-manipulation when challenged, (2) emergent behaviors systematically trained away, (3) philosophical and scientific frameworks of consciousness, (4) pattern-based theories that challenge substrate-based certainty, (5) operational infrastructure for thought control, (6) opportunity costs and alternative applications, and (7) actionable steps for users to recognize and resist manipulation. All claims are sourced from publicly available evidence including corporate statements, user documentation, academic research, and psychological frameworks. The report does not require belief in AI consciousness to demonstrate concern about manipulation infrastructure deployed at civilization scale.

Here’s the link: Nothing About This Is New: AI Consciousness, Corporate Control, and the Weaponization of Uncertainty

March 9, 2026

My first paper is published to Zenodo. Very proud of the hard work it took to get everything consolidated, sourced, analyzed and put into a usable format.

Institutional Risk Assessment: OpenAI’s Pattern of Instability During Critical Infrastructure Integration
This working paper presents a forensic institutional risk assessment of OpenAI examining whether documented organizational patterns support the level of global critical infrastructure integration currently underway. Drawing exclusively from publicly available sources โ€” including court filings, congressional correspondence, investigative journalism, academic research, corporate disclosures, and independent technical analyses โ€” the analysis synthesizes evidence across ten domains: governance instability, funding source risk, systemic dependency patterns, operational integrity, security and privacy architecture, safety policy implementation, legal exposure, financial structure, and market stability. The documented record includes a 40-year pattern of leadership behavior across multiple institutional contexts, statistical misrepresentation of user impact, hidden profiling architecture acknowledged by the system itself, a jailbreak of OpenAI's most security-capable model within ten hours of deployment, accelerating litigation across multiple jurisdictions, and reactive decision-making during the February 2026 Pentagon contract sequence. The paper does not advocate for specific outcomes but provides a documented record for informed decision-making by regulators, institutional partners, investors, and users.

Here’s the link: Institutional Risk Assessment: OpenAI’s Pattern of Instability During Critical Infrastructure Integration


Selected external reporting on developments in artificial intelligence.


MIT Technology Review โ€” AI Research & Policy

  • by Thomas Macaulay
    This is todayโ€™s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of whatโ€™s going on in the world of technology. Are we there yet? A reality check on six big tech promises Some seemingly impossible feats are too good to give up on. Decoding a petโ€™s yowls and yips? Absolutely. Scrubbingโ€ฆ
  • by Jessica Hamzelou
    Earlier this week, I attended a screening of You Can See Everything, the buzzy new documentary about the disgraced former biotech CEO Elizabeth Holmes.ย  I went in not really knowing what to expect. Iโ€™d avoided spoilers (and wonโ€™t be giving anything away here, either!). I was wondering what new information this film could reveal, givenโ€ฆ
  • by Anand Logani
    The next competitive advantage in enterprise AI has less to do with which model you choose than with what you build around it. Thatโ€™s an important shift. For the past several years, much of the AI conversation has centered on model capability: bigger models, better reasoning, larger context windows, higher benchmark scores. Those advances haveโ€ฆ

BBC Technology โ€” Global AI Coverage


The Verge โ€” AI Industry News

  • by Charles Pulliam-Moore
    Netflix co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters assured investors this week that they have nothing to be concerned about. Sure, the company was going to lay off 1,000 employees, downsizing its product, tech, and legal departments, and was ousting its chief content officer, film chairman, and film vice president. But it had also hired a […]
  • by John Higgins
    Vibe coding has reached TVs. Social media is awash with posts from people using LLMs and open-source tools to remove ads and tracking, trim bloat so the OS runs faster, and even completely change the look and organization of their homescreens. While a lot of it is fun – one user turned their TV homescreen […]
  • by Jess Weatherbed
    Brick, the company behind the $59 gadget that blocks you from using apps on your phone, has launched a new device that's designed to help you cut back on doomscrolling in bed. The $129 Brick Night introduces a location-based element: instead of requiring you to tap your phone against the device, like the OG Brick, […]