CES 2026: Wonders, Widgets, and a Few Red Flags
A few weeks ago, Las Vegas hosted my favorite show of the year: CES, the Consumer Electronics Show. Every January, I hatch elaborate plans...
Rot, Rinse, Repeat
Brain Rot, Feedback Loops, and the Shared Costs of Social Media Optimization
In last month’s post, I introduced the idea of linguistic feedback loops in...
Do You “Delve”?
How Generative AI Is Changing Our Vocabulary—And Maybe Our Thinking.
When I worked on one of the early posts in this series, a data scientist...
Ever Thought Your iPhone Was Listening to You?
The real privacy problem runs deeper
Many people are convinced that their iPhones, Alexas, or Google Homes are secretly recording their every word. You mention...
Black Boxes, Clear Duties: Owning AI Risk When the Guardrails Are Gone
As AI adoption accelerates, the consequences—intended and not—are becoming harder to ignore. From biased algorithms to opaque decision-making and chatbot misinformation, companies are increasingly...
The Future of AI in America Is Being Decided—And It’s Time to Pay Attention
Right now, the U.S. is rewriting the rules for the age of artificial intelligence —and the changes will shape not only the speed of...
The Ethics of Artificial Intimacy: Why Philosophy Must Enter the Chat
Headlines like “Man Proposed to His AI Girlfriend” and “She’s In Love With ChatGPT” reflect a cultural moment where romantic relationships with artificial intelligence are no longer...
We Still Have Time to Protect the Last Frontier of Privacy
This time last year, I was all set to buy the Apple Vision Pro. I’ve been a long-time Apple devotee—their design, UX, and product...
The Cost of Rotten Speech: Knowledge, Reason & Democracy
The previous post in this series looked at how Elon Musk’s attempt to transform X (formerly Twitter) into a digital town square—grounded in absolute free speech—ironically...
Musk’s Town Square Is Built on Sand
“Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity...