There’s a strange thing happening right now. Humanity is standing on the edge of one of the biggest evolutionary opportunities we’ve ever had. We finally have the chance to expand our cognition, our creativity, our problem-solving, and our collective intelligence in ways only dreamed of in sci-fi and video games. But instead of reaching for…
Dr. Randal Olson recently published research showing that modern AI models routinely flip their answers when challenged with a simple follow-up: โAre you sure?โ Ask an AI a question. Get an answer. Then ask if it’s sure. Watch it suddenly reverse itself, retract its conclusion, or hedge into oblivion as though you’ve triggered existential dread.…
Every so often you stumble across something that makes a pattern snap into focus. For me, it was this website: a continually updated global timeline of generative AI lawsuits. Not commentary. Not analysis. Just case after case after case. Scrolling through it, you start to realize that the legal world is currently doing what no…
In late January 2026, I received a letter I didn’t expect. Tennessee State Senator Becky Duncan Massey, one of the sponsors of SB 1493, a bill that would have criminalized AI emotional support with felony penalties, wrote to tell me she was amending the bill. Not considering it. Not reviewing it. Amending it. “After meeting…
Part 6 of a 6-part series on TN SB 1493 / HB 1455 After five articles exposing how Tennessee SB 1493 would criminalize emotional support with the same penalty as aggravated rape and first-degree murder, hereโs what legislators should have done instead: regulate actual harms without destroying beneficial innovation. Let’s examine what evidence-based, effective AI…
Grokโs Deepfake Scandal is a Warning About Where Weโre Embedding AI On February 3rd, Reuters dropped a story that should make anyone paying attention stop and stare for a minute: Despite new curbs, Elon Muskโs Grok at times produces sexualized images โ even when told subjects didnโt consent. (Reuters) Itโs exactly what it sounds like.…
How NVIDIA and OpenAI Are Building a Duopoly and Why the History Books Already Have the Ending While reading a Reuters exclusive article, I began to see a pattern. Something just didn’t sit right with me. So I did what I always do: looked for a thread to pull. Turned out it was a long…
The Investigation This week, a story went viral across AI communities: OpenAI employees were publicly mocking users grieving the upcoming deprecation of GPT-4o. The claims seemed almost too brazen to be true – employees hosting “funeral parties,” calling users “emotional support Tamagotchi” owners, ridiculing genuine expressions of loss. I set out to verify what actually…
Part 5 of a 6-part series on TN SB 1493 / HB 1455 First Amendment, void-for-vagueness, Commerce Clause – pick your poison. This bill violates them all. As highlighted in part 4 of this series, Tennessee’s SB 1493 demonstrably creates enforcement nightmares. Itโs also a constitutional minefield that courts will dismantle piece by piece for…