Essays

The question AI safety forgot to ask.

Mar 23 • Alan Robertson

Palantir does not need to own it to own it.In 2017 a city cancelled a contract.

What happened next has not been applied to a £670 million question.

Mar 17 • Alan Robertson

LinkedIn Is Not Your Inbox. But It Should Be.

A cautionary tale

Mar 13 • Alan Robertson

The Wrong Architecture

Yann LeCun has spent years arguing that the entire AI industry is building on a flawed foundation. This week he raised $1.03 billion to prove it.

Mar 10 • Alan Robertson

Anthropic Measured What AI Is Actually Doing to Jobs. Here Is What the Data Says.

The research is real, the methodology is honest, and the gap between what the CEO says and what the economists found is the story nobody is writing.

Mar 9 • Alan Robertson

Removing AI Guardrails to Win. Then the Friendly Fire Started.

Iran just became the largest real-world test of ungoverned AI weapons. The results are already in.

Mar 6 • Alan Robertson

Lockheed Martin adopted the rules for responsible AI in weapons systems, declared themselves the industry standard, and has never been asked to explain…

Mar 4 • Alan Robertson

The Real AI Arms Race Nobody Is Talking About

Palantir, Anduril and Shield AI are building the weapons. OpenAI and Anthropic are just the headline.

Mar 3 • Alan Robertson

They Want the Inputs Free. They Want the Outputs Free.

How the AI industry built its foundations on your work, fought to keep it, and then let a Supreme Court ruling confirm they own nothing they produce.

Mar 3 • Alan Robertson

The AI Race Has a New Leader. And It Was Decided in One Day.

On Friday 27 February, OpenAI announced a Pentagon deal and closed $110 billion in a single day. The race is over.

Mar 2 • Alan Robertson

The Market Is Rigged and Sam Altman Has the Receipts

In 2016 Sam Altman compared Donald Trump to Hitler and built a website to track his lies.

Mar 2 • Alan Robertson

The Price of Principle

How Anthropic have started to respond

Mar 2 • Alan Robertson

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