September 26, 2026

Who benefits from teaching a robot to work?

The conflict is not just about labor; it is also about information. The company may be capturing the knowledge of those who do the work and turning it into models, processes, and intellectual property that do not belong to those workers. This is not necessarily unfair by definition. Automation can eliminate tasks

September 26, 2026

Suncatcher does not eliminate AI's limits: it moves them to space

That is the underlying argument: Project Suncatcher is not trying to escape AI's physical constraints. It is trying to move them somewhere where some take a different form. Less pressure on Earth's power grid, perhaps. Less local water consumption, possibly. But more mass to launch, more orbital complexity and a

September 26, 2026

We don't need less AI, but less obedience to AI

My position is clear: we don't need less artificial intelligence; we need less automatic obedience to artificial intelligence. Learning to write better prompts is not enough. We need to learn to ask who designed the system, what data it uses, what incentives the company offering it has, and what

September 25, 2026

Gemini cannot pass the most important exam

Gemini wants to become a study partner that identifies where to go next. It is a powerful proposition, especially in an education system where personalized attention is scarce. But a study partner is neither a standard of truth, nor a conscience, nor a substitute for human dialogue. Its usefulness grows when

September 25, 2026

Superintelligence: The Name Is Power Too

Perhaps the underlying argument is this: the name does not tell us how much a machine thinks, but it does tell us what those in power want us to think about it. Superintelligence conveys inevitability, superiority, and urgency. And we should resist that spell. The technology is neither fake because it is artificial nor infallible because