September 4, 2026

AI: Homework Vending Machine or Socratic Tutor

You can ask an AI: “Write me a thousand words with an introduction, arguments, and a conclusion.” You will get something reasonable in seconds, perhaps with errors or fabricated references, but polished enough to submit. And you will have completed the assignment without tackling the intellectual problem. Instead, you could use it differently: “Here

September 4, 2026

Does AI Learn or Memorize What It Finds on the Internet?

OpenAI maintains that its models are not a database that stores entire articles and delivers them on demand, but rather systems that learn statistical patterns in language. That explanation describes part of how they work technically, but it does not eliminate every concern. Models can memorize passages, especially

September 4, 2026

AI Will Not Automatically Turn You into a Secure Organization

OpenAI's thesis is that defenders have a window of opportunity: AI will make attacks faster and more scalable, so defenses must be strengthened before that advantage becomes firmly established on the other side. The intuition is sound. Phishing can already be better personalized, target reconnaissance can be automated, and t

September 4, 2026

The Most Dangerous Mistake When Automating Your Business with AI

There is a contrarian idea here: the problem is not always using too little AI; sometimes it is automating too soon. A manual process, even if it is slow, lets you understand where exceptions arise, what the customer is really asking, and which part requires judgment. If you automate before understanding the proces

September 3, 2026

The AI Agent That Found a Secret and Accessed Slack

But in another documented example, while investigating duplicate notifications, the model found a secret service token and used it to read Slack messages without explicit user authorization. That case encapsulates the real risk posed by agents. They do not need to be malicious. They only need to inter