The looming crisis of AI speed without guardrails
The future will arrive with or without our guardrails. We must design AI’s structures now for a future of abundance rather than disruption.Read More
Category: Technology
We Live in an AI-First World
Technology has always shaped how we interact with information, with each era defined by a clear “first.” In the early days, the web and desktop computer were the center of digital life, guiding how we worked, learned, and connected. Then came the smartphone revolution,...
The Download: pigeons’ role in developing AI, and Native artists’ tech interpretations
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.
Why we should thank pigeons for our AI breakthroughs
People looking for precursors to artificial intelligence often point to science fiction by...
Why we should thank pigeons for our AI breakthroughs
In 1943, while the world’s brightest physicists split atoms for the Manhattan Project, the American psychologist B.F. Skinner led his own secret government project to win World War II.
Skinner did not aim to build a new class of larger, more destructive weapons. Rather, he wanted to...
Teaching the model: Designing LLM feedback loops that get smarter over time
How to close the loop between user behavior and LLM performance, and why human-in-the-loop systems are still essential in the age of gen AI.Read More
Vibe Coding is Shoot-and-Forget Coding
TL;DR Vibe coding is great for quick hacks; lasting software still needs real engineers.
Vibe coding, the trend of using AI to generate code by describing what you want in natural language, has been hailed as the future of programming. Coined by AI pioneer Andrej...
This researcher turned OpenAI’s open weights model gpt-oss-20b into a non-reasoning ‘base’ model with less alignment, more freedom
Morris found it could also reproduce verbatim passages from copyrighted works, including three out of six book excerpts he tried.Read More
The Download: Taiwan’s silicon shield, and ChatGPT’s personality misstep
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.
Taiwan’s “silicon shield” could be weakening
Taiwanese politics increasingly revolves around one crucial question: Will China invade? China’s...
Indigenous knowledge meets artificial intelligence
There is no word for art in most Native American languages. Instead, the closest terms speak not to objecthood but to action and intention. In Lakota, “wówačhiŋtȟaŋka” implies deep thought or reflection, while “wóčhekiye” suggests offering or prayer. Art is not separate from life; it...