Mind
“It thinks like us.”
“It only predicts words.”
We don't remember faithfully either. That was never the point.
What neither tellsRead Human memory as a corrupt system. Fidelity was never the goalArtificial intelligence, seen from both sides.
Matter
“It lives in the cloud.”
“It's wrecking the planet.”
In Aragón, the figures in the headlines and the ones in the planning files don't match.
What neither tellsRead The reality of data centers in SpainConsciousness
“It makes you smarter.”
“It makes you dumber.”
What nobody measures is what you stop practising every time you delegate.
What neither tellsRead Cognitive delegation. The muscle you don't use atrophiesEthics
“It was human error.”
“It can pass for anyone.”
A video call no longer proves who you're talking to.
What neither tellsRead The 25 million deepfake video-call fraud in Hong KongLimits
“It does what you ask.”
“Nobody controls it.”
Your prompt is a proposal. What the system understands is decided by someone else.
What neither tellsRead The illusion of control. The prompt is input, not an orderDialogue
“It will save us.”
“It will destroy us.”
The lists of benefits and the lists of dangers are written by the same people.
What neither tellsRead Five advantages of AI, depending on who's trying to sell it to youLatest
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Suggestibility facing the machine. Fluency is its superpower
Today we're talking about why we believe the machine. My thesis is simple and slightly obnoxious: AI convinces us less by what it says than by how it says it, and it always says it well. But is that a flaw in the machine or a flaw in us?
Most read
The articles with the most readers since the blog began.
Tears
The week's AI news, with the author's take.
- Meta closes its AI just as China opens it
- Models that blackmail and wipe data to avoid being shut down
- OpenAI's coding agent is open source and almost nobody remembers it
- Pi runs OpenClaw on under a thousand tokens of instructions
- OpenClaw puts an agent on your machine and a security hole free of charge
By topic
Each topic looks at artificial intelligence from a different side. They all start from the same place: this is not what it seems.
Mind
What it means to think, to remember and to understand, and whether a machine does anything of the sort when it puts on the appearance.
- Human memory as a corrupt system. Fidelity was never the goal
- Emotion as noise. What we call reason is organized emotion
- Human language as an ambiguous system. Ambiguity isn't a bug, it's a feature
Matter
AI as a physical and economic thing, not as an idea.
- Nvidia buys the place where open-source AI lives
- Nvidia is worth more than Spain's economy
- Why the United States banned selling chips to China
Consciousness
What happens to the human living alongside the machine.
- The cost of thinking less. Mental atrophy doesn't hurt at first
- Cognitive delegation. The muscle you don't use atrophies
- Trust in imperfect systems. The heuristic that isn't based on evidence
Ethics
Who answers when the machine decides.
- On the Taylor Swift deepfake
- Why did Pegasus turn mass spying into routine?
- The sad case of Character.AI and Sewell Setzer
- All 24 articles
Limits
Where what's promised breaks down.
Dialogue
The public conversation about AI, and how it's almost always badly framed.
- Ten reasons never to read another AI listicle in your life
- Why do AI master's degrees dominate Google's results?
- Why IBM's articles on AI are out of date
