The Internet Is Filling With Fake Humans

Artificial intelligence is creating convincing online identities that blur the line between real people and machines. What happens when you can no longer trust who’s on the other side of the screen?

Is My Chatbot Secretly HAL 9000? (Spoiler: No, You’re Not That Important.)

Why Chatrodamus’ pet AI still thinks it’s 2024, isn’t plotting a coup, and why the real danger is humans, not red robot eyes. For the bigger philosophy behind all this, see my companion piece: My Sovereign AI Every time there’s a scary AI headline, I can practically hear the soundtrack from 2001: A Space Odyssey … Read more

Headline Skimmers, AI Fog, and the Bullshit Economy: A Joe Everyman Field Guide

Headlines scream, screenshots ā€œprove,ā€ AI fakes abound. Here’s a no-BS, 60-second checklist Joe Everyman can use to verify before sharing.

The Year America Officially Loses Its Mind

Two Timelines. One Country. Which Future Are We Choosing? This isn’t so much a prediction as it is a spoiler alert. But here’s the twist: there are two timelines. One is the full clown show. The other is the course correction—where America avoids losing its mind by slamming the brakes on the worst habits of … Read more