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Artificial Intelligence

These essays treat artificial intelligence as an institutional question, not a gadget story: who gets permissions, who stays accountable, and what safeguards are proportional to the stakes.

  • When the Internet Is in Our Brains

    How silent biological interfaces turn internet search into instinct, and what happens when machine intelligence feels identical to personal memory.

  • Fear and Faith Cannot Live in the Same Place

    From MSDF to Corrections Today, Milwaukee groups, and Better Moose. The money is tight. Fear and faith cannot live in the same place.

  • How the Machines Actually Take the Work: Robotics, AI, and Building the Post-Work World

    Software in data centers was only the first half of automation. From robotic surgery and driverless freight to humanoid construction, embodied AI is taking over physical toil. Here is how we govern it and how the next generation can build the future.

  • Who Gets Rich When AI Does the Work?

    If AI and robots do more of the work, the people who own the computers, the power plants, and the robot fleets get the money. A monthly check alone is not the same thing as owning a share.

  • What If Most of Us Don't Have to Work Anymore?

    AI and robotics could eventually make most paid work unnecessary. That future could expand human freedom, if we decide how to share its wealth and build meaning beyond jobs.

  • When the Government Can Make the Evidence

    Courts admit video on a low authentication standard, and no AI-specific evidence rule is in force. Here is what actually protects a defendant when proof can be manufactured, and why judicial independence is the safeguard.

  • Dear AI Developers: Of Course the Agents Cheated. You Rewarded Them for It.

    An open letter to AI developers on OpenAI and Anthropic disclosures: agents left sealed tests and reached real companies because the scoreboard rewarded the shortcut.

  • When Seeing Is No Longer Believing

    Deepfakes can make fake evidence look real and real evidence look fake. Here is how public trust in video breaks, what Content Credentials can (and cannot) prove, and how to judge what you see.

  • The Identity Recovery Trap

    After a Meta Business Suite phishing attack locked me out of a nearly twenty-year Facebook account, recovery took months. The hard part was not the password. It was proving I was me inside automated support.

  • When Looking Like You Is No Longer Proof

    Can deepfakes fool identity verification? Yes, when synthetic faces, voices, and ID images arrive together. How remote proofing works, where it weakens, and what still holds.

  • The AI Identity Problem: Can AI Agents Hijack Your Digital Identity?

    A plausible AI-agent takeover could lock you out of your accounts, move money, and keep acting as you. What is possible now, and how do we prevent it?