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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. How much hydrogen awaits us underground? A flurry of exploration efforts is searching for underground stores of hydrogen gas, which could provide a valuable source of zero-carbon fuel. The hunt hasโ€ฆ
  • by MIT Technology Review Insights
    The era of AI inference has arrived. Imagine a healthcare system analyzing millions of data points in real time to accelerate life-saving medical research, or an intelligent assistant instantly resolving thousands of complex customer needs at once. These real-world breakthroughs rely on advanced infrastructure acting as the engine of continuous intelligence, powering real-time services whileโ€ฆ
  • 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. Data from drones in Ukraine is fueling a new Wild West marketplace โ€”Cory Alpert, a researcher at the University of Melbourne studying AIโ€™s impact on democracy, who previously served in theโ€ฆ

BBC Technology โ€” Global AI Coverage


The Verge โ€” AI Industry News

  • by Dominic Preston
    Xiaomi is the latest manufacturer to release a short, wide foldable phone, in the week Apple is expected to do the same. I got to try the 18 Fold behind closed doors at IFA last week, and while it looks and feels similar enough to Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 8, superior specs make it feel […]
  • by Sean Hollister
    China is getting first crack at a British technology that might change how mobile games are made and played. Today, the Xiaomi 18 Fold launches in mainland China with an Arm Mali G2-Ultra NX graphics processor inside its custom Xring O3 chip. What's so special about that? After five years of development, Arm now has […]
  • by Andrew J. Hawkins
    When shopping for an electric vehicle, affordability is becoming a more common trait. But affordable and energy efficient is truly a rare breed. Often you have to sacrifice one for the other. Want something affordable? Great, here's a range loser. Want something that goes the distance? Be ready to pay the price. Surprisingly, here comes […]