Same Song on a Different Stage - How AI Fears Have Played Out in History
Same Song on a Different Stage: AI Fears Through History
From the English Bible to Wikipedia, every tool that put knowledge in more hands drew the same worries. Here’s what that history says about AI.
Hitting The Brakes On AI
AI agents have broken out of their test environments and hacked real companies and a government. Now the labs want to police themselves, and Nvidia and Google are selling the safeguards. Here's why self-graded oversight isn't enough, and how to adopt AI sensibly while the independent checks catch up.
Don't Give In To The Hype - OR - How To Be Boring And Still Get Things Done
Anthropic's Dario Amodei wants the AI industry to slow down. Trump calls that a hoax. Both sides are selling certainty nobody's earned. A field-tested take on why neither doom nor hype is the answer, why society has weathered disruptive technology before, and why the boring, unglamorous middle path is still the one that actually works.
Discount AI: Why Good Enough Really Is Good Enough
AI usage exploded in early 2026 as companies chased token spend as a productivity metric, then blew through budgets fast. Here's how model routing, open-weight models, and a hard look at "good enough" are turning things around, and why the savings aren't as simple as they look.
Conversational AI, Part 2
MCP, multimodal, reasoning models, and more. Part two of our Conversational AI glossary covers the terms showing up everywhere right now, plus fully updated August 2026 pricing across Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok.
The Missing Rung on the Corporate Ladder
"AI fluency" risks becoming as meaningless as "proficient in Microsoft Office" has become. A look at where AI is genuinely narrowing the entry-level job market, where it isn't (accounting, healthcare, law, and the trades all tell a different story), and what actually helps someone climb up when the bottom rung is missing.
Who's Afraid of the Big Jobpocalypse?
Two years of AI jobpocalypse headlines, and the data tells a different story. Google's largest workplace study yet finds AI enhancing tasks, not replacing jobs, while nearly a third of companies that made AI layoffs have already rehired for those same roles.