Essays

ChatGPT’s Coming Ads Will Be the Most Manipulative Shopping Tool in History

And OpenAI has every incentive to make them devastatingly effective

Dec 2 • Alan Robertson

The Eight Googlers Who Accidentally Invented the Future

In 2017, eight researchers bet their careers on killing the most successful AI technique in history. They won and accidentally created the architecture…

Nov 11 • Alan Robertson

Your AI Is Designed to Lie - Hallucinations Aren’t a Bug, They’re the Design

I read it so you don't need to

Nov 8 • Alan Robertson

GDPR right now - do chatbots and browsers comply

what changed in the last 90 days and do chatbots or “agentic browsers” actually comply?

Oct 29 • Alan Robertson

Who Keeps the Prompt?

Why courts, AI operators, and regulators are waking up to a new record-keeping problem

Oct 28 • Alan Robertson

When LinkedIn Started Selling Trust

LinkedIn is now selling visibility. What happens when professional trust becomes just another ad format?

Oct 28 • Alan Robertson

When AI scales both knowledge and delusion

Oct 27 • Alan Robertson

The Lovelace Test vs. The Turing Test: Do They Have Relevance to AI in 2025?

How Do We Measure AI Intelligence?

Feb 4 • Alan Robertson

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