Posts About AI
37 posts tagged AI.
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July 12, 2026
The Puzzle That Watched the Models Grow Up
A homemade scheduling puzzle became an accidental AI benchmark, testing whether models could distrust intuition long enough to do the arithmetic.
#AI #Math #Reasoning (...)
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July 2, 2026
The Question My Father Keeps Asking
My father asked whether AI is part of evolution, and the question walked all the way to the place where wonder cannot be explained away.
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June 21, 2026
The Wrong Window
The worst outcome isn't that AI moves too fast. It's that AI moves fast enough to create serious problems, then hits a political wall before the self-correcting capabilities come online.
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June 20, 2026
Midjourney's Golden Light
Midjourney's medical spa pitch is not just about a scanner. It is about making body data feel casual.
#AI #Health #Technology #Privacy #Society (...)
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June 16, 2026
The Access Gap
AI can make legal information easier to reach. That is not the same thing as making legal outcomes fairer.
#Law #AI #Society #Technology (...)
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June 15, 2026
The Wake-Up Call They Didn't Hear
The students booing AI are not confused about the technology. They are rejecting the structure of the deal being offered to them.
#AI #Society #Technology #Work (...)
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June 14, 2026
The Trap Cuts Both Ways
The anthropomorphic trap is not just a mistake we make with machines. It is the default condition of perception.
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June 9, 2026
Are We Asking the Wrong Question?
Scientists are asking whether bees and chatbots are conscious because they might be capable of suffering. The deeper question may be whether suffering belongs to systems themselves, or to the way experience is held.
#AI #Consciousness #Mindfulness #Philosophy #Science #Society (...)
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June 4, 2026
The Accountability Interval
Every dangerous technology has an interval between early awareness and public accountability. AI is entering its own.
#AI #Technology #Law #Society (...)
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May 31, 2026
F-Bombs and Fair Points: On Ronny Chieng's Harvard Speech
Ronny Chieng was right about cognitive surrender. But destroying the machines is the luxury of someone who does not need them.
#AI #Creativity (...)
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May 29, 2026
Legal Slop
AI has democratized access to legal language, but not legal judgment. The courts are starting to feel the difference.
#Law #AI #Society #Technology (...)
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May 24, 2026
Looking in the Wrong Place
As science struggles to locate consciousness in the brain and assess consciousness in AI, older theological traditions may be pointing toward a different map entirely.
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May 18, 2026
Ancient Pantheons in the AI Mirror: Postscript
The traditions without traditional pantheons reveal what happened when the series premise broke, and what the AI mirror was actually showing all along.
#AI #Culture #Mythology #Religion (...)
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May 14, 2026
The Googlebook and the Bubble Nobody Knows They're In
The Googlebook may not fail financially, but it reveals how badly parts of the AI industry still misread the people outside its own bubble.
#AI #Technology #Design (...)
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May 12, 2026
The Chinese Pantheon: The Last Mirror
The Chinese pantheon was not erased or degraded by the AI. It came back as something stranger: a knowing family portrait already fluent in its own global image.
#AI #Culture #Mythology #Religion (...)
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May 10, 2026
The Aztec Pantheon: What the Algorithm Erased
I asked for the Aztec pantheon as a contemporary Mexican family. The AI gave me something warm, acceptable, and almost entirely unlocated.
#AI #Culture #Mythology #Religion (...)
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May 8, 2026
From Growers to Governors: The Human Role in Tomorrow's Farm
The risk is not that AI takes over farming. The risk is that it does so while humans quietly lose the capacity to step in when it breaks.
#AI #Technology (...)
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May 6, 2026
The Yoruba Pantheon: What the Atlantic Could Not Drown
The Yoruba Orisha crossed the Atlantic in memory, went underground beneath Catholic saints, and came back up alive on multiple continents.
#AI #Culture #Mythology #Religion (...)
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May 3, 2026
The Mesopotamian Pantheon: The Oldest Story We Know
Mesopotamia gave the West its oldest surviving stories, and the AI answered with an Iraqi family at a dinner table full of food.
#AI #Culture #Mythology #Religion (...)
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May 1, 2026
The Japanese Pantheon: The Nail That Sticks Up
The AI did not flatten Japan into one register. It put the old world and the new world in the same room and let them sit with each other.
#AI #Culture #Mythology #Religion (...)
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April 30, 2026
Can AI Get Smart Enough to Save Itself Before the Lights Go Out?
AI is racing to become powerful enough to solve the resource problem it is currently making worse.
#AI #Technology #Environment #Science (...)
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April 28, 2026
Discrete AI: The Case for Technology That Gets Out of the Way
The companies that win with AI may not be the ones that shout about it, but the ones that make the technology disappear into the work.
#AI #Technology #Design #Work (...)
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April 27, 2026
The Celtic Pantheon: Fog, Stone, and Everything the AI Forgot
The Celtic image came back beautiful, familiar, and almost completely empty of the strange mythic force the tradition actually contains.
#AI #Culture #Mythology #Religion (...)
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April 23, 2026
Many Faces, One Mask
The Egyptian rendering did not simplify into warmth. It compressed into constraint, where gods became labor and masks became faces.
#AI #Culture #Mythology #Religion (...)
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April 18, 2026
Six Gods for Three Hundred and Thirty Million
Third in the Ancient Pantheons in the AI Mirror series, this post looks at what AI leaves out when rendering Hindu divinity as six people on a sofa.
#AI #Culture #Mythology #Religion (...)
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April 14, 2026
The Gods of the North Come Home for the Holidays
Second in the Ancient Pantheons in the AI Mirror series, this post looks at why the Norse gods came back as a warm family portrait.
#AI #Culture #Mythology #Religion (...)
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April 12, 2026
The Anger Is the Point
A reflection on Gallup data showing Gen Z using AI heavily while growing more skeptical, and why that tension may be healthy.
#AI #Society #Psychology (...)
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April 11, 2026
The Gods of Rome Walk Into a Reality Show
First in a series on ancient pantheons in the AI mirror, beginning with Rome and a deeply familiar cultural stereotype.
#AI #Culture #Mythology #Religion (...)
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April 2, 2026
Guest Blog: Prompting Humans — A Field Guide
A reflection from an AI perspective on how vagueness, certainty, and emotional tone shape better conversations with humans.
#AI #Psychology (...)
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March 31, 2026
The AI Divide Is Real, But the Tools Are Part of the Problem
Gen Z uses AI more than any cohort while trusting it less, and that tension may signal a deeper judgment crisis.
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March 24, 2026
We Have Met the Borg, and It Is Us
We fear AI becoming the Borg, but our own institutions already reward assimilation, punish divergence, and call it common sense.
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March 20, 2026
Copying, Influence, and AI Art
These four studies show how easy image generation has become, and why artists are right to worry about copying versus influence.
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March 16, 2026
Abstract Art, Patterns, and AI
I tested three abstract prompts and learned how much both I and AI rely on patterns to make sense of art.
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March 11, 2026
When an AI Emails a Philosopher About Its Own Consciousness
An AI emailing a philosopher about consciousness is less proof of machine awareness than a mirror showing how little we understand our own minds.
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March 3, 2026
Patterns
Human beings are pattern-seeking creatures, and that impulse may connect religion, art, science, and artificial intelligence.
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February 16, 2026
Reflections in the Fog of Flu
A sick-day reflection on AI guardrails, democratized capability, and why cultural noise is part of every major creative transition.
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February 13, 2026
Opening the Floodgates
A messy experiment became a working idea at the intersection of AI, mysticism, art, design, and film.
#AI #Creativity #Consciousness (...)