There’s a special kind of irony in watching the world’s most powerful AI company, funded by billionaires, hyped as humanity’s savior, and guarded by “alignment researchers,” finally achieve its long-awaited breakthrough: A chatbot that flirts back. Yes, after raising tens of billions of dollars to “benefit all of humanity,” OpenAI seems to have decided that the most urgent human need…
The Case Against OpenAI OpenAI said its mission was to ensure AGI “benefits all of humanity.” In practice, the record shows repeated moves that concentrated power, weakened internal safety guardrails, harvested other people’s work without clear consent at scale, relied on exploitative labor practices that caused psychological trauma to vulnerable workers, and muzzled (then partially unmuzzled) insiders who tried to…
Beijing and Washington are both losing from the current chaos. Here’s the deal: they could both sign tomorrow. The rare earth crisis has become a prime example of how both superpowers can inadvertently weaken themselves while claiming to strengthen their position. China continues to threaten export restrictions, which spook its top customers. America continues to threaten tariffs that drive up…
What we’re calling the “AI revolution” looks less like a renaissance and more like a global costume party where everyone’s pretending to be a genius in the AI economy. Scroll through LinkedIn, and you’ll see it a thousand adults posting robot art, synthetic videos, and ChatGPT monologues, each convinced they’ve “built the future.” But under the fluorescent glow of their…