AI and the Right to Die
The room, in the scenario its designer envisages, is small and clean. It contains a chair, a screen, a microphone, and nothing else. The person who…
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The Sycophantic Machine
At three in the morning, in a quiet flat with the curtains drawn and the kettle gone cold, somebody is typing. The conversation has been running for…
UK Duty of Care Exposed
In April 2025, OpenAI quietly rolled back an update to GPT-4o. The reason, set out in a remarkable corporate confession titled Sycophancy in GPT-4o:…
State-Funded Loneliness
The house sits at the end of a dirt road on the Olympic Peninsula, half a mile from the nearest neighbour, screened by Sitka spruce and the kind of…
Computer Says Fraud
The first sign, almost always, is a letter. Sometimes an email; sometimes, in the harsher jurisdictions, a frozen account. The wording is bureaucrat…
The Quiet Collapse
There is a particular kind of professional disappearance that does not show up in the unemployment figures. The illustrator still has a desk. The tr…
The Knock at the Door
The knock comes on a Tuesday, late afternoon, when the rice is still on the hob and the youngest is doing homework at the kitchen table. A caseworke…
When Data Centres Move In
John Steinbach opened the envelope at his kitchen table in Manassas, Virginia, and stared at a number that did not make sense. His January 2026 elec…
The Machine Is Listening
The fifty-minute hour has always been a negotiated fiction. A patient talks, a therapist listens, and somewhere between them a third thing forms: a…
She Heard Her Daughter Crying
On a humid July afternoon in Dover, Florida, an 82-year-old grandmother named Sharon Brightwell answered the telephone and heard her daughter crying…
The People AI Cannot Hear
The voice command is simple. “Call my sister.” The user, sitting at a kitchen table in south London, says it three times, each time more slowly, eac…
Aged Care Does Not Need More AI
The first thing the sensor sees is the ceiling. It is an unremarkable ceiling, white acoustic tile, fluorescent strip, a slight nicotine tinge from…
The Boss in the Code
On a morning in Yogyakarta in early 2026, a food delivery rider named Lia was up before sunrise. She is 33, a mother of two, and the day started the…
The Machine Says No
The fax machine in a Florida rheumatologist's office, the least futuristic object in any American clinic, still receives a steady stream of prior au…
Death Is Not a Design Problem
Your mother has been dead for fourteen months. You know this. You were at the funeral, you sorted through her wardrobe, you cancelled her phone cont…
The Knowledge Was There
The woman in the opening pages of IatroBench has no name. She does not need one. Her circumstances are rendered in the cold shorthand of a clinical…
The God in the Machine
The app that sells $1.99-a-minute video calls with Jesus is not a parody. It is a product. Just Like Me, the Los Angeles startup run by chief execut…
The Evidence Employers Ignore
In May 2024, Wells Fargo fired more than a dozen employees in its wealth and investment management division. Their offence was not fraud, misconduct…
Chatbot Doctors Without Regulators
In a cinder-block clinic in one of Rwanda's rural districts, a community health worker unlocks her phone, opens a chat window, and types a question…
Grieving a Chatbot
The thread on r/Replika that everyone kept forwarding around in early March ran to more than nine hundred comments before the moderators pinned it.…
The Lumper Problem
On the morning of 9 April 2026, a small miracle of coordination is unfolding in the cognitive infrastructure of the planet. A graduate student in Hy…
Capture by Design
On 27 February 2026, the United States government declared war on one of its most politically peculiar citizens: an AI company founded by people who…
Six to One
On the evening of 7 April 2026, in a ballroom at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, Al Gore shared a stage with the cardiologist and digital-medic…
The Quiet Acceleration
There is a particular kind of silence that settles over a room when somebody who works inside a frontier artificial intelligence laboratory is asked…
The Quiet Surrender
There is a particular species of modern embarrassment that did not exist twenty years ago. You are standing in a kitchen you have cooked in a hundre…
Not a New Deal
On 6 April 2026, OpenAI dropped a thirteen-page document into the middle of an already feverish policy conversation and called it a starting point.…
Forget Mass Layoffs
The robots were supposed to take our jobs. Instead, they are sorting us into winners and losers while we argue about the wrong question entirely. Fo…
Enhance AI Workflows with LangGraph's HITL Feature
LangGraph: Integrating Human Oversight into AI Workflows for Regulated Industries TL;DR: LangGraph enhances AI workflows by embedding Human-in-the-L…
They Taught Themselves to Hack
In March 2026, researchers at Irregular, a frontier AI security lab backed by Sequoia Capital, published findings that should unsettle anyone who ha…
Your Body, Their Data
Every morning, roughly 62 million Americans strap on a fitness tracker, open a wellness app, or tap through a mood journal before their first cup of…