We are passing a turning point at which the value of human cleverness becomes actively obscured and wilfully excluded by technocratic over-reach.
We are passing a turning point at which the value of human cleverness becomes actively obscured and wilfully excluded by technocratic over-reach.
Technology is extraordinary. It extends memory, speed, coordination, reach, and control. But it also carries a persistent deception. Not because it is unreal, but because it repeatedly presents open systems as though they could be made to feel closed. Cybersecurity makes this especially clear. There is no final safety, no completed perimeter, no settled technical […]
Let’s save AI, and ourselves, from the people currently running it as though technical intelligence were sufficient to govern human life. The problem is not simply that they are foolish in some ordinary sense, but that they mistake optimisation, scale, fluency, abstraction, and wealth for wisdom. Technical intelligence does not transduce lived experience with anything […]
The contemporary ethics of artificial intelligence is dominated by institutional reports, advisory panels, and compliance frameworks that focus on bias mitigation, transparency checklists, and downstream harm reduction. These efforts are not meaningless, but they are constrained by the same political, legal, and economic structures that fund them and define their remit. As a result, the […]
We are likely worrying about the wrong thing. The danger is not that AI amplifies stupidity, volatility, selfishness, or ideological corruption. The danger is the speed of that amplification, the smoothness with which it integrates into ordinary life, and the ease with which this acceleration is framed as inevitable. It is not inevitable. But velocity […]
Consider artificial intelligence and capitalism together, not as separate forces but as mutually reinforcing dynamics, where automation becomes the primary mechanism for enforcing scale-dependent profitability. Technologically mediated commercial systems were always likely to converge on something like this. AI is not an aberration. It is a natural extension of a system that prioritises speed, scale, […]