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The Scraping Tax

Early in 2024, the Wikimedia Foundation noticed something odd in its traffic logs. Bandwidth for...

Remember: Generative AI is Weird

Up until the launch of ChatGPT, every digital technology we deployed into our work and...

When the Robot Writes the Story

Earlier this year, Chris Quinn, editor of Cleveland.com and the Plain Dealer, set off a...

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Building Trust in a Zero-Trust World

Last month I described how deepfakes, the Liar’s Dividend, and AI-generated content have created what...

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Welcome to the Zero-Trust World

In March 2025, a finance director at a multinational firm in Singapore joined what seemed...

The AI Treadmill: When AI Makes You Busier, Not Freer

In December, I wrote about the AI productivity paradox — the difference between the gains...

Exploring AI with J. Scott Christianson

Vibe-Prototyping: Exploring an AI Accelerant

“Vibe-coding” is a way of building software by describing what you want in plain English...

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The AI Bubble Won’t Pop — It Will Burn

Generative AI is the most overhyped technology I’ve seen in forty years of watching tech....

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Beyond Chatbots: The Shift to Agentic AI

You may have heard some talk lately about AI agents or agentic AI. Don’t worry....

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The AI Productivity Paradox

The past few years have been filled with predictions of extraordinary productivity gains businesses will...