Mythos and Fable can make us all safer. Shutting them down is reckless.
We built an elaborate apparatus for turning AI models on safely - reviews, red teams, evals, benchmarks. To turn one off took a letter that landed at 5:21pm on a Friday. The model was never the thing that needed governing. The switch was.
It’s the End of the Internet as We Know It
The détente is over. Anyone can write software now—and soon, anyone can break it. What happens when the people building the internet are the least equipped to defend it?
My Tesla Was Driving Itself Perfectly - Until It Crashed
My Tesla crashed with my kids in the back seat. Here's what I've been thinking about since.
AI sovereignty won’t come from renting Big Tech’s models
One more from the India AI Summit - on why sovereignty doesn't mean solitude, and why the countries that wait to invest in open AI are the ones that won't get to choose later.
From UPI to AI
On my way to the India AI Summit with a simple argument: when open-source AI matches proprietary performance at a sixth of the cost, sovereignty stops being ideological and starts being practical.
The Validation Machines
Humanity thrives on friction—so why are the tools of the future built to make everything seem so easy?
5 Skills Kids (and Adults) Need in an AI World
On raising the first AI-native generation, and the human skills—resilience, questioning, empathy—that will matter most.
Government, Efficiency, and Empathy
A call to humanize government technology—proving that efficiency and empathy can, and must, coexist.
The Wolves Closest to the Sled
A look at how self-driving cars are turning our cities into networks of private surveillance—and why that should concern us all.
The Internet of Things
A proposal for an Internet of Things and its impact on infrastructure and everyday services.